X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=b2cfabc4a5c99605a7785fc3fe12971e40d68425;hp=acbf7bbad19bc7c4925e49d9e6777acc67317feb;hb=2cbd37356b2a3d3890b335d01e0d563269b448be;hpb=c1318b06b424523d3704fcdfd16d3adb25d17d18 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index acbf7bba..b2cfabc4 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,534 @@ +2015-05-22, Version 5.5.0 + * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed. + Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792 + * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab + ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806, + #807, #908 + * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous + fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry + Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808 + * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks + to Marc Fournier. + * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and + the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves + Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727 + * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments + and documentation and several error messages have been improved. + Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves + Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier. + * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains. + Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444 + * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and + systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to + Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814 + * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to + Yves Mettier. #691 + * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the + "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the + exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey + Remizov and Florian Forster. #713 + * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the + "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553 + * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been + made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl. + * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting + network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489 + * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian + Forster and Marc Fournier. + * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin + API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT + license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX, + gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping, + PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog, + Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS + plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios + and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig, + most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API. + * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable. + Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581 + * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to + Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644 + * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added, + allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc + Fournier. #833 + * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have + been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to + David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623 + * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP + plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at + compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440 + * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The + connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured + "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior. + Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993 + * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins: + Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against + libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947 + * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the + encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni + Moreno. #946 + * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various + Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69, + #693 + * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded + batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has + been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and + Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998 + * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the + battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor + Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847 + * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph + distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin + McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598 + * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well + as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to + Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680 + * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and + aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and + Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802 + * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has + been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411 + * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis. + Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685 + * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow + HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been + implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482 + * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been + added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to + Mark Wong. #317, #321 + * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible. + Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453 + * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up + in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537 + * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related + metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael + Schenck. #705, #759 + * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated + Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700 + * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set + metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416 + * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file + handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009 + * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been + added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre + Moutot. #452 + * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared + memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925 + * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file. + Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681 + * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. + Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498 + * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events + as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. + #360 + * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no + longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603 + * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks + to Matt Cottingham. #622 + * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been + added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697 + * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. + Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511, + #559 + * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now + possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338 + * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial + port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen. + * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX + platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684 + * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now + result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to + Jeremy Katz. #441 + * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been + added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. + #248, #621, #699, #824 + * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been + added. Thanks to William Tisäter. + * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added. + Thanks to Marek Becka. #435 + * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been + added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732 + * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek + Becka. #550 + * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families + has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672 + * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families + has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68 + * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from + OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc + Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719 + * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks + to Ed Okerson. #252 + * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin + report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris + Lundquist. #264 + * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various + internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has + been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728 + * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older + values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen + O'Dor. #593 + * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3. + Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965 + * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile + systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652 + * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is + now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been + added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne. + #890, #751, #771 + * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched + from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc + Fournier, Johan Bergström and Michael Spiegle. #296, #464, #475, #799 + * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored + in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816 + * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been + added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532 + * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added. + Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571 + * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk + drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797 + * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter + which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414 + * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been + implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362 + * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to + Sergey. #939, #952 + * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. + Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510 + * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where + "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster. + #733 + * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented. + Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673 + * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis. + Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446 + * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize + all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488 + * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for + the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546 + * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state + residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent + Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651 + * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks + to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674 + * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as + monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #618, #783 + * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to + Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert. + * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or + UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385 + * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails, + reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #625 + * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been + improved. The "" block has been deprecated in favor of + "". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902 + * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been + added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666 + * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to + reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc + Fournier. #752, #985 + * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server + can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #722 + * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a + distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard, + ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014 + * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the + configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886 + * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes + in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417 + * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann + server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575 + * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added. + Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459 + * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events + to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default. + Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800 + * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added, + which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706 + * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the + Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518 + * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream + processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc + Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016 + * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable + time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin + Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945 + * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to + Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552 + * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper + "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826 + +2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2 + * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford, + KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc + Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326, + #373, #653, #828 + * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()" + function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs. + * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc + Fournier and @NsLib. + * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to + Wilfried Goesgens. + * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the + "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster. + * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write + failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed. + Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo. + * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and + Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. + * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain + targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has + been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907 + * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and + "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented. + Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been + improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715 + * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects + has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535 + * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed. + Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22 + * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call + "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to + Jeremy Katz. + * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average, + minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start + of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #663 + * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common + prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582 + * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #950 + * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the + "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477 + * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been + fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114 + * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's + representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín + Rozada. + * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths. + Thanks to Florian Forster. + * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a + misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. + * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added. + Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632 + * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been + improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627 + * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #716 + * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to + Yoga Ramalingam. + * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a + double. Thanks to Justin Burnham. + * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files + has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661 + * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves + Ritschard. #610, #804 + * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks + to John Leach. #461 + * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks + to Florian Forster. #733 + * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been + added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. + * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. + * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs) + has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát. + * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks + to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. + * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #821 + * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable + numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to + John-John Tedro. + +2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1 + * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler + warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this. + * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully + resolved gcrypt initialization problems. + * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed. + Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch. + * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence + of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing + of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux. + Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches. + * curl plugin: Fix blocks without an instance. Thanks to + Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been + sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch. + * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of + per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric. + Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch. + * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The + default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a + regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect + behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch. + * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only. + +2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0 + * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load + plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is + encountered, only the first will have any effect. + * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load + plugins for which a configuration is found. + * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options + allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out + of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch. + * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and + "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent + for the patch. + * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan + speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling + control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch. + * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks + to Jan Matějka for his patch. + * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards + has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch. + * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved. + * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information + for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch. + * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have + been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch. + * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent + a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the + patch. + * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux' + Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work. + * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been + added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch. + * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power + consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC) + architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his + work. + * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported + "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch. + * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been + added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch. + * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal + processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light + meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch. + * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads + metrics in the StatsD format. + * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to + Nick Stenning for his patch. + * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to + Javier Maestro for his patch. + * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added. + * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li + for his patch. + +2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2 + * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford, + KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc + Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326, + #373, #653, #828 + * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()" + function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs. + * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc + Fournier and @NsLib. + * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to + Wilfried Goesgens. + * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the + "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster. + * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write + failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed. + Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo. + * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and + Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. + * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain + targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has + been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907 + * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks + to Fabien Wernli. + * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and + "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented. + Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects + has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535 + * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed. + Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22 + * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be + ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. + * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call + "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to + Jeremy Katz. + * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average, + minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start + of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #663 + * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been + restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950 + * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the + "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477 + * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's + representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín + Rozada. + * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been + fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114 + * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths. + Thanks to Florian Forster. + * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a + misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. + * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim + Radford. + * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added. + Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632 + * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been + improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627 + * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #716 + * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to + Yoga Ramalingam. + * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a + double. Thanks to Justin Burnham. + * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + #448 + * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option; + this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380 + * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files + has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661 + * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves + Ritschard. #610, #804 + * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks + to Florian Forster. #733 + * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been + added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. + * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. + * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks + to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. + * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #821 + * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to + John-John Tedro. + 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1 * Documentation: Various fixes. * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were @@ -1580,7 +2111,7 @@ 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library. - * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the + * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the architecture collectd is being built on. * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name of disks. @@ -1645,7 +2176,7 @@ 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab library. - * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more + * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more reliable. * Various plugins: Fix format strings. * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names