1 2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
2 * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
3 libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
5 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
6 segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
8 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
10 * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
11 JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
13 * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
14 "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
16 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
17 Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
18 * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
19 fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
20 * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
21 time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
22 * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
23 being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
25 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
26 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
27 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
28 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
29 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
30 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
32 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
33 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
34 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
35 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
36 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
37 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
38 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
39 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
40 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
41 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
42 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
43 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
44 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
45 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
47 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
48 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
49 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
50 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
51 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
52 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
53 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
54 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
56 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
57 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
58 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
59 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
60 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
61 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
62 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
63 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
64 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
65 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
67 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
68 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
69 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
70 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
71 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
72 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
73 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
74 to Florian Forster. #1813
75 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
76 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
77 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
78 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
79 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
80 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
81 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
83 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
85 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
86 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
87 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
88 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
89 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
90 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
92 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
93 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
94 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
95 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
96 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
97 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
98 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
99 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
101 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
102 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
103 Thanks to Marek Becka.
104 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
105 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
106 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
108 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
109 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
110 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
111 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
112 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
113 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
114 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
115 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
117 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
118 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
119 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
120 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
121 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
122 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
123 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
124 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
125 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
126 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
127 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
128 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
129 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
130 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
131 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
132 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
133 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
134 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
135 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
137 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
138 to Scott Talbert. #1770
139 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
140 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
141 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
142 Vincent Bernat. #1397
143 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
144 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
145 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
146 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
147 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
148 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
149 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
150 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
151 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
152 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
153 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
154 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
155 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
156 Thanks to Florian Forster.
157 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
159 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
160 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
161 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
162 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
163 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
164 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
165 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
167 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
168 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
169 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
170 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
171 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
172 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
173 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
174 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
175 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
176 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
177 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
178 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
180 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
181 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
183 2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
184 * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
185 called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
186 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
187 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
188 * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
189 environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
190 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
192 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
193 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
195 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
196 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
197 * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
198 to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
199 Thanks to Florian Forster.
200 * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
201 instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
202 * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
203 unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
204 * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
205 to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
206 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
208 * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
210 * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
211 has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
212 "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
213 * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
214 actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
215 Florian Forster. #1902
216 * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
217 fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
219 * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
220 have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
221 available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
222 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
223 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
224 * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
225 different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
226 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
227 been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
228 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
229 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
230 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
231 Thanks to Florian Forster.
232 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
235 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
236 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
237 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
238 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
239 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
240 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
241 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
242 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
243 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
244 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
245 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
246 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
248 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
249 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
251 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
252 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
253 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
254 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
255 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
256 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
257 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
258 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
259 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
260 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
261 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
262 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
263 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
264 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
265 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
266 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
267 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
268 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
269 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
270 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
271 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
272 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
273 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
274 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
275 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
276 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
277 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
278 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
279 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
280 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
282 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
283 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
284 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
286 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
287 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
288 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
289 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
290 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
291 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
292 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
293 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
294 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
295 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
296 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
297 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
298 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
299 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
300 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
301 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
302 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
303 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
304 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
305 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
307 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
308 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
309 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
310 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
311 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
312 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
313 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
314 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
316 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
318 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
319 to Natanael Copa. #1147
320 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
321 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
322 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
323 to Marc Fournier. #1132
324 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
325 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
326 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
327 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
328 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
329 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
330 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
332 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
333 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
334 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
335 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
337 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
339 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
340 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
342 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
343 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
344 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
346 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
348 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
349 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
350 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
351 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
352 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
355 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
356 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
357 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
358 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
359 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
361 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
362 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
363 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
364 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
366 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
368 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
369 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
370 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
371 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
372 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
373 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
374 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
375 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
376 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
377 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
378 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
379 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
380 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
381 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
382 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
384 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
385 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
386 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
387 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
388 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
389 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
390 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
391 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
392 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
393 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
394 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
395 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
396 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
397 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
398 Forster and Marc Fournier.
399 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
400 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
401 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
402 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
403 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
404 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
405 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
406 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
407 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
408 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
409 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
410 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
411 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
412 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
413 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
414 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
415 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
417 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
418 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
419 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
420 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
421 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
422 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
423 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
424 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
425 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
426 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
427 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
428 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
429 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
430 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
431 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
433 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
434 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
436 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
437 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
438 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
439 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
440 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
441 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
442 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
443 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
444 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
445 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
446 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
447 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
448 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
449 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
450 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
451 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
452 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
453 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
454 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
455 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
456 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
457 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
458 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
459 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
460 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
461 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
462 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
463 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
464 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
465 Mark Wong. #317, #321
466 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
467 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
468 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
469 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
470 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
471 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
473 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
474 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
475 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
476 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
477 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
478 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
479 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
480 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
482 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
483 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
484 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
485 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
486 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
487 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
488 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
489 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
491 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
492 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
493 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
494 to Matt Cottingham. #622
495 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
496 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
497 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
498 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
500 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
501 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
502 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
503 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
504 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
505 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
506 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
507 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
509 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
510 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
511 #248, #621, #699, #824
512 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
513 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
514 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
515 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
516 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
517 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
518 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
520 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
521 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
522 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
523 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
524 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
525 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
526 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
527 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
529 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
530 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
532 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
533 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
534 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
535 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
536 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
538 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
539 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
540 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
541 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
542 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
543 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
544 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
546 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
547 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
548 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
549 #464, #475, #799, #1030
550 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
551 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
552 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
553 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
554 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
555 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
556 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
557 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
558 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
559 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
560 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
561 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
562 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
564 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
565 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
566 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
567 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
569 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
570 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
571 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
572 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
573 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
574 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
575 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
576 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
577 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
578 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
579 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
580 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
581 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
582 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
583 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
585 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
586 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
587 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
588 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
589 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
591 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
592 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
593 Florian Forster. #625
594 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
595 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
596 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
597 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
598 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
599 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
600 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
602 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
603 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
605 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
606 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
607 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
608 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
609 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
610 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
611 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
612 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
613 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
614 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
615 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
616 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
617 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
618 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
619 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
620 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
621 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
622 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
623 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
624 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
625 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
626 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
627 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
628 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
629 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
630 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
631 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
632 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
634 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
635 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
637 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
638 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
639 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
640 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
641 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
642 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
643 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
644 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
645 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
646 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
647 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
648 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
649 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
650 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
651 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
652 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
653 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
655 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
656 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
657 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
658 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
659 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
660 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
661 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
662 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
663 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
664 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
665 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
667 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
668 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
669 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
670 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
671 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
672 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
673 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
674 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
675 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
676 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
677 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
678 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
679 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
680 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
682 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
683 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
684 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
685 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
686 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
687 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
688 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
689 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
690 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
691 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
693 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
695 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
697 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
698 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
699 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
700 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
701 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
702 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
703 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
704 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
705 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
706 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
707 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
708 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
709 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
710 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
712 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
713 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
715 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
716 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
717 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
718 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
719 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
720 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
721 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
722 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
723 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
724 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
725 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
726 Florian Forster. #956
727 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
728 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
729 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
730 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
731 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
732 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
733 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
734 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
735 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
736 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
737 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
738 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
740 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
741 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
742 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
743 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
744 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
745 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
746 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
747 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
748 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
749 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
751 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
752 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
753 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
754 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
755 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
756 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
757 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
758 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
759 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
761 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
762 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
763 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
764 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
765 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
766 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
767 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
769 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
770 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
771 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
772 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
774 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
775 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
776 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
777 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
778 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
779 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
780 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
781 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
782 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
783 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
784 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
785 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
787 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
788 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
789 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
790 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
791 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
792 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
793 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
794 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
795 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
796 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
797 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
798 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
799 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
800 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
801 Florian Forster. #1070
802 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
804 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
805 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
806 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
807 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
808 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
809 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
810 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
812 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
813 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
814 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
815 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
817 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
818 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
819 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
821 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
823 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
824 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
825 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
826 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
827 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
828 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
829 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
830 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
831 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
832 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
833 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
834 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
835 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
837 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
838 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
839 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
840 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
841 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
842 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
843 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
844 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
845 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
846 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
847 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
849 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
850 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
851 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
852 Florian Forster. #663
853 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
854 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
855 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
856 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
857 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
858 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
859 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
860 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
861 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
862 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
864 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
865 Thanks to Florian Forster.
866 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
867 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
868 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
869 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
870 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
871 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
872 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
874 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
876 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
877 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
878 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
879 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
880 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
881 Ritschard. #610, #804
882 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
884 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
885 to Florian Forster. #733
886 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
887 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
888 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
890 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
891 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
892 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
893 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
894 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
896 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
897 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
899 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
902 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
903 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
904 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
905 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
906 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
907 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
908 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
909 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
910 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
911 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
912 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
913 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
914 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
915 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
916 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
917 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
918 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
919 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
920 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
921 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
922 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
923 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
924 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
926 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
927 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
928 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
929 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
930 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
931 plugins for which a configuration is found.
932 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
933 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
934 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
935 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
936 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
938 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
939 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
940 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
941 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
942 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
943 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
944 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
945 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
946 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
947 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
948 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
949 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
950 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
951 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
953 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
954 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
955 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
956 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
957 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
958 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
959 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
961 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
962 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
963 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
964 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
965 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
966 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
967 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
968 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
969 metrics in the StatsD format.
970 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
971 Nick Stenning for his patch.
972 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
973 Javier Maestro for his patch.
974 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
975 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
978 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
979 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
980 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
981 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
983 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
984 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
985 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
987 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
989 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
990 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
991 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
992 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
993 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
994 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
995 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
996 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
997 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
998 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
999 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1000 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1001 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1003 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
1005 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1006 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1007 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1008 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1009 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1010 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1011 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1012 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
1013 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
1014 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
1015 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1017 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1018 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1019 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1020 Florian Forster. #663
1021 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
1022 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1023 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1024 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1025 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1026 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1028 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1029 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1030 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1031 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1032 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1033 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1034 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
1036 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1037 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1038 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1039 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1040 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1042 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1044 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1045 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1046 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1048 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
1049 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
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 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1055 to Florian Forster. #733
1056 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1057 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1058 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1060 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1061 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1062 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1064 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1067 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
1068 * Documentation: Various fixes.
1069 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
1070 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
1071 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
1072 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
1073 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
1074 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
1075 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1076 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1077 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1078 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1079 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1080 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1081 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1082 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1084 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1085 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1086 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1088 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1089 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1090 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1091 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1092 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1093 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1094 can now be set via the configuration file.
1095 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1096 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1097 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1098 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1099 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1100 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1101 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1102 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1103 Greg Mason for his patch.
1104 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1105 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1106 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1107 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1108 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1109 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1110 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1111 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1112 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1113 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1114 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1115 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1116 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1118 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1119 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1120 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1121 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1123 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1124 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1125 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1126 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1127 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1128 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1129 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1130 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1131 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1132 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1133 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1134 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1135 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1136 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1137 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1138 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1139 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1140 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1141 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1142 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1143 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1144 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1145 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1146 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1147 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1148 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1149 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1150 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1151 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1152 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1153 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1156 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1157 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1158 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1159 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1160 more frequently than intended.
1161 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1162 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1163 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1164 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1165 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1166 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1167 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1168 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1169 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1170 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1172 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1173 Ritschard for his patch.
1174 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1175 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1176 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1177 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1178 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1179 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1180 the logging problem.
1181 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1182 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1184 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1185 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1186 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1187 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1188 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1190 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1191 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1192 plugin, for example.
1193 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1194 in the binary format has been added.
1195 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1196 value lists into one.
1197 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1198 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1199 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1200 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1201 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1202 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1203 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1205 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1207 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1208 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1209 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1210 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1211 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1212 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1213 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1214 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1215 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1216 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1218 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1219 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1220 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1221 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1222 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1223 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1224 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1225 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1226 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1227 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1228 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1229 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1230 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1231 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1233 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1234 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1235 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1236 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1237 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1238 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1239 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1240 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1241 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1242 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1243 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1244 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1245 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1246 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1247 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1248 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1249 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1250 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1251 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1252 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1253 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1254 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1255 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1256 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1257 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1258 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1259 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1262 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1263 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1264 Mettier for his patches.
1265 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1266 more frequently than intended.
1267 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1268 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1269 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1270 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1271 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1272 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1273 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1274 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1275 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1277 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1278 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1280 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1281 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1282 unwanted permission bits.
1283 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1284 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1285 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1286 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1287 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1288 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1289 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1290 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1291 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1293 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1294 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1295 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1296 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1297 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1298 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1299 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1300 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1301 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1302 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1303 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1304 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1306 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1307 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1308 reporting these problems.
1309 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1310 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1311 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1312 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1313 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1315 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1316 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1317 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1318 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1319 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1320 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1321 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1322 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1324 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1325 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1326 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1327 "biancalana" for the fix.
1328 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1329 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1330 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1331 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1332 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1334 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1335 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1336 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1337 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1339 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1340 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1342 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1343 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1344 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1345 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1346 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1347 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1348 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1349 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1350 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1351 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1352 Ritschard for his patch.
1353 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1354 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1356 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1357 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1359 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1361 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1362 Ioiart for his patch.
1363 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1364 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1365 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1366 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1367 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1369 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1370 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1371 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1372 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1373 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1374 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1375 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1376 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1377 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1378 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1379 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1380 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1381 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1382 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1383 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1384 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1385 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1387 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1388 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1389 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1390 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1392 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1393 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1394 unwanted permission bits.
1395 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1396 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1397 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1398 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1399 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1400 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1401 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1402 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1403 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1405 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1406 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1407 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1408 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1409 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1410 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1411 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1412 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1413 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1414 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1415 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1416 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1418 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1419 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1420 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1421 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1422 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1424 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1425 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1426 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1427 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1428 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1429 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1430 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1431 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1433 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1434 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1435 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1436 "biancalana" for the fix.
1437 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1438 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1439 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1440 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1441 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1444 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1445 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1446 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1447 plugin under Gentoo.
1448 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1449 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1451 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1452 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1453 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1454 Opter for his patch.
1455 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1456 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1458 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1459 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1461 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1462 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1464 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1465 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1467 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1468 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1469 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1470 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1471 runtime has been fixed.
1473 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1474 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1475 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1476 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1478 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1479 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1480 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1481 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1482 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1483 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1484 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1486 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1488 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1489 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1490 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1491 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1492 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1494 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1495 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1496 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1497 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1498 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1500 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1501 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1502 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1503 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1505 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1506 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1507 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1508 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1509 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1510 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1511 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1512 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1513 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1514 for fixing this bug!
1516 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1517 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1518 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1519 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1520 to Peter Green for his patch.
1521 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1522 McCabe for the patch.
1523 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1524 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1525 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1526 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1527 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1528 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1529 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1530 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1531 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1532 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1533 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1534 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1535 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1536 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1537 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1538 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1539 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1540 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1541 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1542 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1543 Flisher for the fix.
1545 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1546 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1547 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1548 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1549 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1550 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1551 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1552 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1554 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1555 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1556 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1557 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1558 added to the collectd client library.
1559 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1560 one data source has been changed to "value".
1561 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1562 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1563 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1564 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1565 maximum value is unspecified.
1566 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1567 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1568 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1569 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1570 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1571 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1572 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1573 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1574 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1575 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1577 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1578 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1579 "Connection" blocks.
1580 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1582 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1584 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1585 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1586 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1587 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1589 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1590 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1591 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1592 data sets used have been improved.
1593 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1595 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1596 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1597 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1598 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1599 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1600 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1601 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1602 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1603 this separate plugin.
1604 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1605 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1606 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1607 Fournier for their contributions.
1608 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1610 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1612 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1615 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1616 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1617 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1618 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1619 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1620 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1621 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1622 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1623 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1624 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1625 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1626 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1627 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1628 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1629 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1630 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1631 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1632 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1633 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1636 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1637 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1638 unwanted permission bits.
1639 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1640 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1641 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1642 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1643 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1644 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1645 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1646 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1647 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1648 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1649 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1650 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1651 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1652 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1653 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1654 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1656 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1657 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1658 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1660 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1661 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1662 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1663 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1664 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1665 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1666 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1667 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1669 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1670 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1671 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1672 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1673 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1674 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1675 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1678 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1679 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1680 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1681 plugin under Gentoo.
1682 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1683 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1685 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1686 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1687 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1688 Opter for his patch.
1689 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1690 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1692 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1693 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1695 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1696 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1698 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1699 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1701 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1702 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1703 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1704 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1705 runtime has been fixed.
1707 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1708 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1709 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1710 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1712 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1713 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1714 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1715 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1716 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1717 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1718 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1720 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1722 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1723 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1724 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1725 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1726 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1728 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1729 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1730 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1731 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1732 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1734 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1735 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1736 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1737 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1739 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1740 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1741 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1742 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1743 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1744 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1745 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1746 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1747 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1748 for fixing this bug!
1750 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1751 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1752 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1753 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1754 to Peter Green for his patch.
1755 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1756 McCabe for the patch.
1757 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1758 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1759 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1761 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1762 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1763 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1764 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1765 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1766 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1767 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1768 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1769 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1770 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1771 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1772 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1773 Flisher for the fix.
1775 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1776 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1777 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1779 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1780 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1781 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1783 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1784 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1785 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1786 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1787 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1788 error handling case.
1789 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1790 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1793 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1794 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1795 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1796 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1797 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1798 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1799 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1800 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1801 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1802 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1803 configurable timeout value.
1804 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1805 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1806 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1807 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1808 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1809 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1810 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1812 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1813 to prevent spamming the logs.
1814 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1815 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1816 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1817 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1819 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1821 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1822 Trenkel for the patch.
1824 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1825 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1826 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1827 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1828 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1830 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1831 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1832 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1834 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1835 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1836 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1837 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1838 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1839 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1840 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1841 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1842 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1843 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1845 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1846 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1847 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1848 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1849 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1850 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1851 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1853 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1855 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1856 lines from the match.
1857 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1858 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1860 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1861 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1862 Malek for the patch.
1863 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1864 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1866 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1867 certain lines from the match.
1868 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1869 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1870 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1871 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1872 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1873 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1874 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1875 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1876 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1877 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1878 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1879 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1880 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1881 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1882 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1883 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1884 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1885 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1886 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1887 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1888 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1889 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1890 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1891 MikroTik devices has been added.
1892 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1893 Scraba for his patch.
1894 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1895 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1896 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1897 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1898 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1899 Ammous for his patch.
1901 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1902 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1903 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1905 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1906 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1907 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1909 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1910 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1911 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1912 error handling case.
1913 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1914 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1917 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1918 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1919 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1920 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1921 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1922 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1923 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1924 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1925 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1926 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1927 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1928 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1929 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1930 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1931 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1932 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1934 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1935 to prevent spamming the logs.
1936 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1937 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1938 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1939 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1941 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1942 Trenkel for the patch.
1944 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1945 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1946 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1947 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1948 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1950 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1951 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1952 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1953 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1955 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1956 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1957 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1958 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1959 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1960 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1961 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1962 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1963 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1964 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1965 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1966 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1968 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1969 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1970 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1971 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1972 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1973 figuring out a way to make this work.
1974 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1975 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1976 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1977 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1978 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1980 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1982 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1983 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1984 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1985 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1986 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1987 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1988 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1989 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1991 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1992 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1993 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1994 an unknown data source type.
1995 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1996 packets has been fixed.
1997 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1999 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2000 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2001 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2002 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2003 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2004 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2006 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
2007 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2008 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
2009 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
2010 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
2011 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
2012 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2013 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2014 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2016 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
2017 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
2018 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
2021 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
2022 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
2023 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
2024 Weiskircher for the patch.
2025 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
2026 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2027 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
2028 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
2029 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
2030 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
2031 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
2032 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
2033 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
2034 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
2035 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
2036 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
2037 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
2039 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
2040 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2041 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
2042 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
2043 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
2044 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2045 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
2046 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2047 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
2048 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
2049 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
2050 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
2051 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
2052 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
2053 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
2054 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2055 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
2056 storage has been added.
2057 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
2058 value has been added.
2060 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
2061 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2062 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2063 an unknown data source type.
2065 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
2066 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2067 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2068 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2069 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2070 figuring out a way to make this work.
2071 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2072 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2073 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2074 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2076 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2078 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2079 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2080 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2081 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2082 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2083 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2085 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2086 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2087 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2088 packets has been fixed.
2089 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2090 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2091 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2092 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2093 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2094 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2096 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2097 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2098 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2099 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2100 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2103 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2104 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2105 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2106 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2107 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2108 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2110 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2111 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2112 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2113 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2114 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2115 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2117 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2118 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2119 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2120 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2122 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2123 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2125 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2126 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2127 issues on some platforms.
2128 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2129 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2130 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2131 descriptor handling.
2133 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2134 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2135 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2136 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2137 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2138 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2140 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2141 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2142 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2143 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2144 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2145 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2146 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2147 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2148 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2149 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2150 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2152 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2153 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2154 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2155 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2156 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2157 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2158 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2159 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2160 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2161 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2162 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2164 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2165 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2167 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2168 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2169 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2170 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2171 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2172 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2173 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2174 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2175 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2176 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2177 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2178 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2179 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2180 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2182 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2183 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2184 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2185 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2186 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2187 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2189 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2190 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2191 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2192 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2194 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2195 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2196 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2197 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2199 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2200 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2202 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2203 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2204 issues on some platforms.
2205 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2206 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2207 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2208 descriptor handling.
2210 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2211 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2212 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2213 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2214 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2215 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2217 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2218 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2219 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2220 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2221 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2222 Hess for reporting this bug.
2223 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2224 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2225 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2226 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2227 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2228 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2229 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2230 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2231 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2232 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2233 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2234 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2235 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2236 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2237 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2238 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2239 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2242 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2243 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2245 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2246 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2247 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2248 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2249 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2250 for reporting the bug.
2251 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2253 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2254 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2255 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2256 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2257 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2258 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2259 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2260 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2261 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2263 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2264 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2265 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2266 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2267 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2269 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2270 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2272 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2273 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2274 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2275 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2276 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2277 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2278 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2279 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2280 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2281 Konetzko for the patch.
2282 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2283 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2284 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2285 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2286 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2287 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2288 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2289 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2290 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2291 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2292 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2293 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2294 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2295 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2296 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2297 Quiédeville for the patch.
2298 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2300 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2301 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2302 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2303 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2304 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2305 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2306 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2307 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2309 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2310 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2311 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2312 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2313 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2314 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2316 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2317 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2318 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2319 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2321 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2322 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2323 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2324 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2325 Hess for reporting this bug.
2326 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2327 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2328 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2329 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2330 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2331 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2332 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2333 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2334 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2337 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2338 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2339 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2340 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2341 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2342 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2343 for reporting the bug.
2345 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2346 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2347 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2348 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2349 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2350 providing an OpenBSD system.
2351 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2352 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2353 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2354 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2355 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2357 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2359 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2360 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2361 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2362 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2363 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2365 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2366 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2367 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2369 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2370 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2371 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2372 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2374 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2375 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2376 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2377 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2378 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2379 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2380 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2381 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2382 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2383 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2384 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2385 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2386 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2388 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2389 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2390 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2391 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2392 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2393 for finding and fixing most of them.
2394 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2395 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2397 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2398 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2399 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2400 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2401 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2402 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2403 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2404 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2405 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2406 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2407 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2409 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2410 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2411 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2412 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2414 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2415 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2416 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2417 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2418 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2419 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2420 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2421 Kuhnle for the patch.
2422 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2423 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2424 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2425 MacEachern for the patch.
2426 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2427 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2428 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2429 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2430 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2431 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2432 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2433 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2434 select interfaces, too.
2435 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2436 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2437 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2439 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2440 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2441 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2442 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2443 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2444 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2445 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2446 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2447 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2448 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2450 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2451 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2452 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2453 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2454 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2455 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2456 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2457 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2459 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2460 been added. Portability fixes.
2461 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2462 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2463 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2465 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2468 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2469 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2470 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2471 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2472 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2473 providing an OpenBSD system.
2474 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2475 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2477 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2478 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2479 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2480 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2481 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2482 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2484 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2485 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2486 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2487 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2489 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2490 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2492 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2493 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2494 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2496 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2497 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2498 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2499 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2501 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2502 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2503 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2504 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2506 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2507 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2508 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2509 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2510 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2511 provide these necessary functions.
2512 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2513 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2515 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2516 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2517 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2518 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2520 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2521 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2522 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2523 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2524 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2525 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2527 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2528 invalid configuration options.
2529 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2530 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2531 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2533 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2534 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2535 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2536 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2538 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2539 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2540 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2541 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2542 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2543 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2544 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2545 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2547 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2548 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2549 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2550 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2551 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2552 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2553 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2554 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2555 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2556 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2557 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2558 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2560 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2561 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2564 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2565 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2566 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2568 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2569 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2570 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2571 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2572 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2573 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2575 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2576 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2577 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2578 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2580 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2581 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2582 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2583 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2585 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2586 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2587 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2588 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2589 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2591 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2592 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2593 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2595 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2596 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2597 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2598 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2600 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2601 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2602 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2603 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2604 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2605 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2606 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2607 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2608 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2609 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2610 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2611 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2613 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2614 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2615 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2617 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2618 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2619 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2620 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2622 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2623 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2624 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2625 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2626 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2627 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2628 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2629 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2631 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2632 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2633 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2634 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2635 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2636 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2637 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2640 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2641 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2642 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2644 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2645 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2647 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2648 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2649 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2650 architecture collectd is being built on.
2651 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2653 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2655 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2656 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2657 values under Solaris.
2658 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2659 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2661 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2662 returned by some broken drivers.
2664 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2665 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2666 to kyrone for reporting this.
2667 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2669 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2671 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2672 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2673 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2674 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2676 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2677 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2678 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2679 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2680 flush its values to disk.
2681 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2682 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2683 for each data source.
2684 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2686 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2687 page of an Ascent server.
2688 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2689 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2690 specific disks has been added.
2691 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2692 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2693 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2695 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2696 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2697 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2698 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2699 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2700 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2701 configuration has been decreased.
2702 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2703 continuously reading from log files.
2704 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2705 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2706 and number of channels.
2707 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2708 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2709 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2711 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2712 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2714 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2716 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2717 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2718 again has been applied.
2719 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2721 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2722 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2724 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2725 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2726 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2729 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2730 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2731 they are in non-standard paths.
2732 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2733 if the libc expects it.
2734 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2735 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2737 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2738 using a buffer of static size.
2739 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2741 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2742 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2744 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2745 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2746 `Persist' threshold options.
2747 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2748 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2749 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2750 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2751 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2753 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2754 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2756 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2757 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2758 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2759 cross-platform compatibility.
2760 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2761 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2762 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2764 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2765 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2766 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2767 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2768 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2769 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2771 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2772 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2773 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2774 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2775 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2776 wants to add custom type definitions.
2777 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2778 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2779 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2780 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2781 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2782 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2783 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2784 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2785 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2786 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2787 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2788 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2789 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2790 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2791 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2792 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2793 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2794 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2795 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2796 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2797 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2798 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2799 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2800 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2801 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2802 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2803 Technology group for this plugin.
2805 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2806 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2807 they are in non-standard paths.
2808 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2809 if the libc expects it.
2810 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2811 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2813 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2814 using a buffer of static size.
2815 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2817 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2818 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2820 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2821 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2822 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2823 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2824 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2826 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2827 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2828 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2830 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2831 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2832 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2833 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2834 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2835 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2836 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2837 cross-platform compatibility.
2838 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2839 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2840 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2841 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2843 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2844 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2845 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2846 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2847 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2849 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2850 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2851 of the libsensors library.
2853 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2854 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2855 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2857 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2858 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2861 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2862 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2863 enabled on the host.
2864 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2866 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2867 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2868 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2869 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2870 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2871 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2872 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2873 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2874 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2875 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2876 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2877 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2878 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2879 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2880 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2881 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2882 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2883 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2884 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2885 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2886 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2887 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2888 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2889 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2890 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2891 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2893 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2894 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2895 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2896 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2897 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2899 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2900 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2902 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2903 of the libsensors library.
2905 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2906 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2907 it's in a non-standard location.
2908 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2909 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2910 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2911 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2912 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2913 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2915 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2916 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2918 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2919 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2921 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2922 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2923 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2924 noise quality as percentage.
2925 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2926 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2927 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2928 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2929 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2930 support for the `timeticks' type.
2932 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2933 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2934 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2935 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2937 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2938 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2939 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2941 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2942 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2943 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2944 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2946 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2947 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2948 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2949 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2951 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2952 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2953 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2954 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2955 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2956 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2957 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2958 to not block data collection.
2959 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2960 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2961 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2963 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2964 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2965 of music played with xmms.
2967 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2968 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2969 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2970 noise quality as percentage.
2971 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2973 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2974 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2975 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2976 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2978 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2979 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2980 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2981 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2983 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2984 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2986 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2987 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2988 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2989 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2990 (i. e. without quotes).
2991 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2992 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2993 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2995 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2996 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2997 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2998 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
3000 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
3001 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
3002 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
3005 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
3006 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
3008 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
3009 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3010 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
3011 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3012 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
3013 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3014 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
3016 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
3017 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
3018 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
3019 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
3020 initialized correctly.
3021 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
3023 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
3024 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
3025 they're given in numerically form.
3027 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
3028 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
3029 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
3032 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
3033 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
3034 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
3035 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
3036 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
3037 thread-safe functions from now on.
3038 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
3039 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
3040 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
3042 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
3043 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
3044 write to increase IO-performance.
3045 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
3046 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
3047 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
3048 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
3049 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
3051 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
3052 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
3053 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
3055 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
3056 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
3057 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
3058 or STDOUT or STDERR.
3059 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
3060 system's syslog daemon.
3061 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
3062 entropy currently being available to the system.
3063 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
3064 back values provided by the forked processes.
3065 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
3066 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
3068 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
3069 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
3070 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
3071 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
3072 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
3073 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
3074 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
3075 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3076 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3078 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3079 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3080 noise quality as percentage.
3082 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3083 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3085 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3086 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3087 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3088 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3089 were accounted as `zombies'.
3091 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3092 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3095 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3096 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3097 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3099 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3100 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3101 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3102 segfault with some libcs.
3104 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3105 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3106 under Solaris again.
3107 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3109 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3110 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3112 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3113 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3114 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3115 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3116 write init.d-scripts for it.
3117 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3118 caused problems every now and then.
3119 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3120 filesystem types or devices.
3121 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3122 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3124 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3125 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3126 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3127 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3128 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3129 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3130 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3131 segment size and pagefaults.
3132 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3133 queries multimeters.
3134 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3135 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3136 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3138 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3139 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3140 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3141 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3143 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3144 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3145 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3146 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3149 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3150 * The sample config file has been improved.
3151 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3152 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3153 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3154 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3156 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3157 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3158 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3160 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3161 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3163 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3164 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3165 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3166 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3168 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3169 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3170 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3171 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3172 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3173 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3174 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3175 with a test environment :)
3176 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3179 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3180 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3181 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3183 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3184 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3185 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3187 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3188 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3189 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3191 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3192 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3194 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3195 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3196 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3197 approximately 7.6 days.
3199 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3200 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3201 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3202 approximately 7.6 days.
3204 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3205 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3207 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3209 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3211 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3212 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3213 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3214 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3215 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3217 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3218 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3219 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3220 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3221 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3222 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3223 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3224 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3226 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3227 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3228 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3229 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3231 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3232 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3233 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3235 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3236 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3237 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3239 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3240 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3241 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3244 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3245 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3246 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3248 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3249 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3250 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3251 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3253 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3254 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3255 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3257 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3258 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3260 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3261 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3263 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3264 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3266 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3267 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3269 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3270 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3271 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3272 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3273 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3274 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3275 address and/or port than localhost.
3276 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3277 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3278 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3279 be set in the configfile.
3281 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3282 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3283 client mode. This released fixes this.
3285 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3286 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3287 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3290 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3291 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3293 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3294 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3295 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3296 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3298 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3299 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3300 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3303 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3304 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3305 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3307 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3308 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3309 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3310 currently logged in users.
3311 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3312 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3313 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3314 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3316 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3317 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3318 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3319 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3320 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3321 with the `-c' argument.
3322 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3323 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3324 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3325 Barcellos for this patch.
3327 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3328 * New modules have been added:
3329 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3330 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3331 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3332 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3334 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3335 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3337 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3338 between polls up to one day.
3339 * The init.d files have been improved.
3340 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3342 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3343 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3344 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3346 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3347 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3348 multicast) has been added.
3349 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3350 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3351 to be linked against an external library.
3352 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3353 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3355 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3356 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3358 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3359 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3360 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3361 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3362 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3363 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3364 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3365 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3366 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3369 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3370 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3372 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3374 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3375 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3377 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3378 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3379 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3380 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3382 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3383 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3384 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3386 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3387 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3388 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3389 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3390 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3391 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3392 statistics will not work.
3394 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3395 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3396 weird strings as disk-names..
3398 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3399 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3400 about the disks and partitions.
3402 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3403 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3404 and/or kernel versions.
3406 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3407 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3408 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3410 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3411 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3412 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3414 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3415 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3417 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3418 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3420 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3422 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3423 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3425 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3426 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob