X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=29034760a92c18be4297f16fdeda890e8365c3d4;hp=45f220966d45f3b0b964986dc74fe68c1773f4c3;hb=491712ab7dd36eb58fba23942f5edf4b76b50361;hpb=b3bfb951c73ea3d232e0e97a42479a5e3310125d diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 45f22096..29034760 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,447 @@ +2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2 + * 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. + * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the + configurable timeout value. + * 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. + * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been + fixed. + * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven + Trenkel for the patch. + +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 + Weiskircher for the patch. + * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has + been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch. + * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks + to Aman Gupta for the patch. + * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been + added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch. + * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and + “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application. + * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from + mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch. + * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers. + Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch. + * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has + been implemented. + * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”. + Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch. + * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics + has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch. + * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device" + have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to + Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. + * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter + into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting + language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work. + * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and + wireless registration statistics from RouterOS. + * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk, + interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to + Manuel Sanmartin for his patches. + * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant + storage has been added. + * 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. + * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2). + * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build + issues on some platforms. + * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to + Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. + * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file + descriptor handling. + +2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0 + * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have + been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset + occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this. + * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and + “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his + patches. + * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using + the cURL library and parses the contents according to user + specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics + from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch. + * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather + than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to + Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added. + Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch. + * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to + query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management + Extensions” (JMX). + * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about + Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to + Ondrej Zajicek for his patches. + * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made + configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to + Aman Gupta for the patch. + * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from + the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon. + * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random + write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by + writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the + patch. + * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has + been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the + patch. + * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of + records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to + Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be + used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier. + * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values + collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests. + Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about + the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System” + (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch. + * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value + 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. + * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2). + * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build + issues on some platforms. + * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to + Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. + * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file + descriptor handling. + +2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3 + * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching + code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing. + This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return + old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J. + Díaz for the patch. + * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library + to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug. + * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system, + possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey + Hess for reporting this bug. + * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been + updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it + is linked with the shipped library, too. + * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has + forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when + forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured + during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins. + * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks + to Alan Pevec for the patch. + * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The + value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the + gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has + been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch. + * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram + socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An + incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling + for his patches. + +2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2 + * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java + bindings. + * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. + Díaz for fixing this bug. + * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification + code. The bug may result in an assertion failure. + * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta + for reporting the bug. + * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm. + 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for @@ -61,6 +505,35 @@ * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch. +2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5 + * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing. + This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return + old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J. + Díaz for the patch. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library + to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug. + * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system, + possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey + Hess for reporting this bug. + * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been + updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it + is linked with the shipped library, too. + * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks + to Alan Pevec for the patch. + * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram + socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An + incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling + for his patches. + +2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4 + * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. + Díaz for fixing this bug. + * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification + code. The bug may result in an assertion failure. + * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta + for reporting the bug. + 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern @@ -1133,15 +1606,15 @@ 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats * Collecting CPU statistics now -2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog +2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings and the like.. * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd -2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes +2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes * Nothing really useful to say ;) -2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version +2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version * The following modules are provided: * Load average * Ping time