+2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
+ * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
+ * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
+ Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
+ * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
+ been improved.
+ * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
+ removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
+ * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
+ been added.
+ * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
+ struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
+ * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
+ have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
+ configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
+ * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
+ increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
+ fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
+ * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
+ have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
+
+2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
+ * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
+ fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
+ the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
+ * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
+ "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
+ code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
+ patch.
+ * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
+ has been added.
+ * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
+ lines from the match.
+ * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
+ and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
+ his work.
+ * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
+ "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
+ Malek for the patch.
+ * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
+ severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
+ his patch.
+ * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
+ certain lines from the match.
+ * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
+ Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
+ * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
+ interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
+ traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
+ * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
+ options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
+ multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
+ * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
+ Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
+ webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
+ * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
+ address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
+ to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
+ * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
+ plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
+ Sebastian Harl for his work.
+ * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
+ has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
+ * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
+ Sven Trenkel for his work.
+ * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
+ and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
+ MikroTik devices has been added.
+ * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
+ Scraba for his patch.
+ * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
+ lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
+ * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
+ Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
+ * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
+ Ammous for his patch.
+
+2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
+ * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
+ * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
+ the rest of the configuration if possible.
+ * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
+ read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
+ * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
+ fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
+ Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
+ * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
+ sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
+ Sebastian Harl for the patch.
+ * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
+ JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
+ * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
+ Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
+ for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
+ to prevent spamming the logs.
+ * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
+ * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
+ it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
+ * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
+ RRD files.
+ * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
+ Trenkel for the patch.
+
+2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
+ * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
+ * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
+ Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
+ * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
+ been improved.
+ * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
+ * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
+ removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
+ * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
+ been added.
+ * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
+ struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
+ * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
+ have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
+ configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
+ * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
+ Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
+ * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
+ increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
+ fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
+ * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
+ have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
+
+2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
+ * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
+ added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
+ * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
+ figuring out a way to make this work.
+ * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
+ * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
+ * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
+ the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
+ for the patch.
+ * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
+ file fails.
+ * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
+ been fixed for Apache 2.*.
+ * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
+ Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
+ * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
+ is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
+ * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
+ warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
+ the work-around.
+ * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
+ Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
+ * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
+ an unknown data source type.
+ * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
+ packets has been fixed.
+ * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
+ files.
+ * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
+ this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
+ * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
+ * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
+ be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+
+2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
+ * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
+ * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
+ * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
+ VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
+ * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
+ incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
+ indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
+ again.
+ * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
+ * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
+ * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
+ debugging output.
+
2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
* contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
* scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
value has been added.
+2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
+ * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
+ * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
+ an unknown data source type.
+
+2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
+ * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
+ added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
+ * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
+ figuring out a way to make this work.
+ * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
+ * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
+ the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
+ for the patch.
+ * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
+ file fails.
+ * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
+ been fixed for Apache 2.*.
+ * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
+ is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
+ * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
+ warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
+ the work-around.
+ * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
+ Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
+ * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
+ packets has been fixed.
+ * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
+ this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
+ * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
+ * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
+ be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+
+2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
+ * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
+ incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
+ indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
+ again.
+
+2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
+ * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
+ headers, because it's a GNU extension.
+ * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
+ Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
+ * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
+ loaded.
+ * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
+ * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
+ * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
+ * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
+ * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
+ * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
+ added.
+ * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
+ containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
+ * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
+
2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
* Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
fixed.
lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
+2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
+ * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
+ headers, because it's a GNU extension.
+ * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
+ Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
+ * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
+ loaded.
+ * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
+ * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
+ * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
+ * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
+ added.
+ * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
+ containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
+ * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
+
2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
* Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
fixed.
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