X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=e558a26217729a170d974fa989a723866709675e;hp=48dc6ca33e008e27c056381066c1b7368f1253f4;hb=48efd3deb4c9139fd060ff3d289896e9031bcc7c;hpb=b286b677bb54a3192a4121c2aa0857a133fd0603 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 48dc6ca3..e558a262 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,1077 @@ +2019-10-01, Version 5.9.2 + * syslog plugin: Don't fail if syslog loglevel doesn't match. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli. #3236 #3238 + * collectd: Fix ssnprintf wrapper. Thanks to Fabien Wernli. #3237 + * rdt plugin: Fix compile time issues. Thanks to Matthias Runge. #3245 + +2019-07-24, Version 5.9.1 + * collectd: redhat spec: fix build due to new upstream plugins. Thanks + to Fabien Wernli. #3175 + * collectd: regex match: Fix unexpected match with empty meta data . + Thanks to Takuro Ashie. #3178 + * collectd: Fix return value or loglevel for several plugins. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli. #3182 + * collectd: Add standard include early or _FILE_OFFSET_BITS will have + definition … . Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3193 + * collectd: Use GCC-specific flags only when compiling with GCC. Thanks + to Dagobert Michelsen. #3195 + * Use test_utils_proc_pids only when compiling the plugin that uses it. + Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3197 + * DNS plugin: Do not use headers from glibc. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. + #3156, #3145 + * collectd: Add missing definitions for libnetsnmpagent. Thanks to + Dagobert Michelsen. #3203 + * collectd: Move Makefile rules for pid_test inside conditional for + code. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3206 + * collectd: Recover setlocale() call in src/daemon/collectd.c do_init(). + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3214, #3181 + * collectd: Add snprintf wrapper for GCC 8.2/3. Thanks to zebity. #3153, + #2895, #3038 + * collectd: Fix bug that leads to CPPFLAGS gets overridden with CFLAGS + when libxmms is enabled. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3207 + * Write_Riemann plugin: Copy MetaData to Riemann events in + write_riemann. Thanks to Romain Tartière. #3158 + * virt plugin: Fix memory leak with libvirt MetadataXPath enabled. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3225, #3230 + +2019-06-13, Version 5.9.0 + * Build System: configure.ac: option "--with-libxml2" has been added. + Thanks to Dimitrios Apostolou, Pavel Rochnyak. #2864 + * Build System: configure.ac: run dpdk build tests only if pkgconfig + fails. Thanks to Luca Boccassi, Pavel Rochnyak. #3015 + * Build System: The "df" plugin is now built when "getmntent_r()" is + available. Thanks to Florian Forster. #3095 + * Build System: The ability to turn on collectd "debug" feature in RPMs + has been added. Thanks to dehotot. #2755 + * collectd: A new "UNKNOWN" state as the initial state of metrics has + been added. Thanks to Luis Fernández Álvarez, Florian Forster. #2976 + * collectd: Base port to Windows. Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2810 + * collectd: Code ownership of five plugins has been handed out to folks + from Intel. Thanks to Florian Forster. #3053 + * collectd: config parser: Improved error reporting on global options. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2813 + * collectd: daemon: make plugin_dispatch_multivalue() obey write queue + limits. Thanks to Adam Romanek. #2898 + * collectd: Macros "STRERROR" and "STRERRNO" have been added. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #2519 + * collectd: Plugin name field has been added to plugin context to + improve error reporting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2821 + * collectd-tg: Use "CLOCK_REALTIME" for collectd-tg times. Thanks to + Andrew Bays. #2837 + * tree-wide: Don't initialize static pointers to NULL, use "bool" from + "stdbool.h" (instead of "_Bool"). Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2771, + #2772 + * tree-wide: Replace zu with "PRIsz" and llu with "PRIu64". Thanks to + Sean Campbell. #2512 + * tree-wide: Use interval value from plugin context, do not set + "vl->interval" in plugins more. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2847 + * tree-wide: Utilities and libraries have been moved to "src/utils/". + Thanks to Florian Forster. #2961 + * AMPQ1 plugin: A new plugin to write to amqp1 protocol. Thanks to Andy + Smith. #2618 + * Chrony plugin: Ignoring late responses has been added. Thanks to + Miroslav Lichvar, Pavel Rochnyak. #2896 + * CPUFreq plugin: Read number of p-state transitions and time spent in + each p-state. Thanks to Sexton Rory. #2803 + * cURL, cURL-XML plugins: Option "Interval" has been added. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyak. #2847 + * Disk plugin: Report number of in progress disk IO requests on FreeBSD. + Thanks to Nathan Huff. #2878 + * Exec plugin: Dynamic allocation of grname buffer has been added. + Thanks to sreedi, Florian Forster. #2937 + * GPU NVML plugin: New plugin to collect NVIDIA GPU stats. Thanks to + Evgeny Naumov. #2923 + * gRPC plugin: The "VerifyPeer" option for servers has been added. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #2593 + * Intel RDT plugin: Support for groups of PIDs has been added. Thanks to + Wojciech Andralojc, Mateusz Starzyk, Michal Aleksinski. #2891 + * IPMI plugin: Config options "SELSensor" and "SELIgnoreSelected" have + been added. Thanks to Mariusz Szafranski. #2796 + * Modbus plugin: Support for 64 bit vals has been added, support for + CDAB endian 32-bit modbus polls has been added. Thanks to Anthony + Vickers, PJ Bostley. #2670, #2660 + * Modbus plugin: The "Scale" and "Shift" metrics have been added. Thanks + to cekstam. #2729 + * Netlink plugin: Handle new counter from Linux kernel version 4.6+. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2767 + * Network plugin: Option "BindAddress" has been added. Thanks to Ofir + Hermesh. #2831 + * Ping plugin: An "AddressFamily" configuration option has been added. + Thanks to 依云 lilydjwg. #2961 + * OVS Stats plugin: Extended metrics "ovs-dpdk" have been added. Thanks + to Matteo Croce, Ryan McCabe. #3000 + * OVS Stats plugin: Support of bond interface and a "InterfaceStats" + config option have been added. Thanks to Andrew Bays. #2880 + * PCIe Errors plugin: New plugin to read "PCIe" errors. Thanks to Kamil + Wiatrowski. #2733 + * Processes plugin: Support for Linux Delay Accounting has been added. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #2598 + * Redis plugin: Keyspace "hitratio" metric has been added, metric + "operations_per_second" has been removed, an option for connecting via + UNIX socket has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2838, #2845, + #2904 + * RouterOS plugin: Support for temperature and voltage data has been + added, use MAC-address when Radio-name is missing. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyak. #2851, #2854 + * RRDCacheD plugin: Time resolution has been improved to microseconds. + Thanks to Brian T. O'Neill. #3065 + * Sensors plugin: Checks for upper limit of "SENSORS_API_VERSION" have + been removed, support for libsensors older than 3.0.0 has been + dropped. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3013, #3014 + * SNMP plugin: New options "PluginInstance", "TypeInstance", + "TypeInstanceOID", "PluginInstanceOID", "FilterOID", "FilterValues" + and "FilterIgnoreSelected" have been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. + #2817, #2819 + * SNMP Agent plugin: Multiple key indexes to snmp table and other new + features have been added, refactoring, coverity scan issues have been + fixed. Thanks to Marcin Mozejko. #2702, #2844 + * Swap plugin: Support for Linux 2.4 has been dropped. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyak. #2979 + * Turbostat plugin: Configuration option "RestoreAffinityPolicy" has + been added. Thanks to Pablo Llopis. #2627 + * Turbostat plugin: New metrics "P-states", "Turboboost", "Platform + TDP", "Uncore bus ratio" have been added. Thanks to Sexton Rory. #2806 + * Turbostat plugin: Support of reporting GPU power on SKL has been + added. Thanks to Gordon Kelly. #2605 + * virt plugin: Allow read "Hostname" from libvirt metadata. Thanks to + Mehdi ABAAKOUK. #2807 + * virt plugin: Block info statistics for disk devices have been added. + Thanks to Radoslaw Jablonski. #2874 + * Wireless plugin: A "bitrate" metric has been added. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #2950 + * Write Graphite, Write Kafka plugins: Support for Graphite 1.1+ tag has + been added. Thanks to Dan Cech. #2631 + * Write Prometheus plugin: Option "Host" has been added. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyak. #2969 + * Write Stackdriver plugin: New plugin to write to Google Stackdriver + Monitoring. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2472 + * Write Syslog plugin: "write_syslog" plugin writes values lists as + syslog messages. Thanks to Shirly Radco. #3019 + * Build System: A warning that pkgdatadir and pkglibdir were previously + defined has been fixed, additional plugins have been enabled, + GNULIB_DIR has been added to LDFLAGS in configure.ac on Windows. + Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2907, #2885, #2882 + * Build System: Including "utils/mount/mount.h" has been fixed. Thanks + to Florian Forster. #3097 + * Build System: The amount of output from ./configure has been reduced, + rendering of collectd-lua(5) manpage has been fixed, don't hide errors + when creating manpage. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3086, #3088, #3092 + * collectd: A bug in "c_avl_iterator_prev" has been fixed. Thanks to + volth. #2917 + * collectd: A stringop compiler warning has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof, Juan Osorio Robles. #3021 + * collectd: An invalid memory access in the "strjoin()" function has + been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #3063 + * collectd: collectd binary has been refactored. Thanks to Sean + Campbell, Sebastian Harl. #2745 + * collectd: collectdmon cannot exit command line options parse loop has + been fixed. Thanks to takahashi-tsc. #2774 + * collectd: Endianness checks for AIX have been added, gcc issue on Mac + byteorder has been fixed, fallback for endianness conversion has been + added. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #2761, #2741, #2717 + * collectd: Handle failure of simple config callbacks. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #3085 + * collectd: Include "kstat.h" if available to provide "kstat_ctl_t", + include "kstat.h" when available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #2716, + #2711 + * collectd: Parsing option for avoiding making BaseDir has been fixed. + Thanks to Mariusz Białończyk. #2856 + * collectd: Remove empty "cmd_listval_t" data structure and related + no-op code. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2779 + * collectd: src/daemon/plugin.c: Refactor plugin_load_file(), + src/utils_format_json.c: Remove chatty debug messages. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #2558, #2938 + * collectd: Stop poisoning function in debug mode. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #2804 + * collectd: The number of allocations when parsing types.db has been + reduced. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3091 + * collectd: The organization of the source repository has been improved. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #2961 + * collectd: Typos have been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster, Jakub + Jankowski, William Pursell. #2944, #2692, #2643 + * tree-wide: cleanup: cf_util_get* instead of local copy in plugins, + prefixed error reporting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2833 + * tree-wide: Some style issues have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + #3022 + * tree-wide: "sstrerror()" has been replaced with "STRERRNO". Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyak. #2735 + * AMQP1 plugin: Potential memory leaks found via scan-build have been + fixed, a typo in error log message has been fixed, cleanups. Thanks to + Andy Smith, Andrew Bays, Ruben Kerkhof. #2802, #2876, #2797 + * Barometer plugin: Support to "libi2c-4.0" has been added. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyak. #2783 + * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: Fixes and improvements. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyak. #1705 + * Disk plugin: "HAVE_UDEV_H" has been changed to "HAVE_LIBUDEV_H". + Thanks to Dylan Stephano-Shachter. #2668 + * Disk plugin: In linux, reset the disk when it disappears from + "/proc/diskstats". Thanks to Nikita Kozlov, Pavel Rochnyak. #2551 + * DPDK Events, DPDK Stats plugins: Buffer size for parsing lcores has + been increased, a deprecation warning has been fixed, runtime config + file path has been fixed. Thanks to Kevin Laatz. #2722, #2840, #2924 + * DPDK Stats plugin: A compilation issue has been fixed. Thanks to + Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2524 + * GPS plugin: Build with gpsd version 3.18 has been fixed. Thanks to + Baruch Siach. #2947 + * Intel RDT plugin: Compiler warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #3104 + * Log Logstash plugin: Non-portable struct initialization with "{}" has + been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2988 + * LUA plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + #3090 + * MySQL plugin: Properly cleanup dropped MySQL connections. Thanks to + Dhrupad Bhardwaj. #2704 + * Netlink plugin: Truncation warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #2777 + * NFS plugin: Message "Unexpected number of fields for NFSv4 server + statistics: 62" has been fixed. Thanks to Yedidyah Bar David. #2076 + * NFS plugin: Number of fields for "NFSv4" has been fixed. Thanks to + Jan-Philipp Litza. #2915 + * Notify Email plugin: All notification parameters have been included + into email. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2834 + * NTPd plugin: Don't treat normal peers as refclocks, skip "0.0.0.0" + hosts in ntpd plugin. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak, Ivan Kurnosov. #2822, + #2376 + * OAuth plugin: src/utils_oauth.c: Renew OAuth tokens 30 seconds before + they expire. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2970 + * OVS Stats plugin: A macro to populate counters list has been added, + value of "OpenFlow" has been corrected. Thanks to Matteo Croce. #2966, + #2963 + * OVS Stats plugin: Code style, cleanup and improvements. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyak. #3011, #3012 + * OVS Stats, OVS Events plugins: utils_ovs: Avoid potential access of + freed memory, fixes. Thanks to Ciara Loftus, Mark Kavanagh. #2801, + #2731 + * Processes plugin: Compilation has been fixed when ps_delay() is not + used. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2610 + * Python plugin: A compilation warning with Python 3.7 has been fixed. + Thanks to Manoj Srivastava. #3042 + * Redis plugin: Bugfixes, extended error reporting, persistent + connections and parallel polling, ability to select db for queries has + been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak, skob. #2826, #2789 + * Router OS plugin: Unset radio-name showing up as "(null)" has been + fixed. Thanks to melak. #2740 + * RRDCacheD plugin: Cleanup rrdcached plugin a bit. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyak. #3080 + * RRDTool plugin: Error reporting has been extended. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyak. #2825 + * Sensors plugin: Support for humidity sensors has been added. Thanks to + Sarah Fischmann. #2913 + * Sensu, OVS Stat, Turbostat, virt, OAuth, Write Prometheus, Intel RDT + plugins: Compiler warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + #3093, #3098, #3099, #3100, #3102, #3103, #3104 + * virt plugin: Code "do {} while(0)" around macro has been removed. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #2579 + * virt plugin: Compiler warnings, a segfault in libvirt, typo in error + messages have been fixed. Thanks to Antoine Naud, Ruben Kerkhof, sarah + niuxu18. #2808, #2919, #2957 + * virt plugin: Optional "virDomainGetCPUStats()" has been removed from + main flow, cleanup. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2972, #2978 + * virt plugin: Tracking of VM state changes has been fixed. Thanks to + Radoslaw Jablonski. #2701 + * Write MongoDB plugin: Plugin dependencies have been fixed. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyak. #3010 + * Write Prometheus plugin: A compilation issue on Mac OS X has been + fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #3059 + * Write Redis plugin: Bug ""max_set_duration" deletes unexpected data" + has been fixed. Thanks to takahashi-tsc. #2773 + * Write Stackdriver plugin: Potential NULL dereference and error + reporting have been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2960 + * collectd.conf(5): a typo has been fixed, the tail plugin's + documentation has been improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Florian + Forster. #3087, #2994 + * collectd.conf.pod: virt: "Instances" option has been documented, a + clarifying example has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak, Fabien + Wernli. #2990, #2903 + * collectd-python: "Import" configuration option has been documented. + Thanks to Tyler Harper. #2985 + * collectd-snmp.pod: Document thread usage correctly. Thanks to Nathan + Ward. #3078 + * CONTRIBUTING.md: Improve wording around ChangeLog; fix example, + document the new change log requirement / behavior. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #3061, #3054 + * docs/review_comments.md: document with frequent review comments has + been started. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2964 + * README: Include compiler defenses suggestion, do not point users to + non-existing file. Thanks to Kevin Laatz, Ruben Kerkhof. #2721, #2045 + +2018-10-23, Version 5.8.1 + * collectd: Fix "BaseDir" option. Thanks to Mariusz Białończyk and + Pavel Rochnyak. #2857 + * collectd: improve error handling, check return values. Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Build System: use "kstat.h", when available. Thanks to Dagobert + Michelsen and Pavel Rochnyak. #2784 + * Build System: Fix distcheck on MacOS. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Build System: add missing include of ""collectd.h"" to fix builds on + Solaris. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. + * Build System: add endianess checks for AIX, fix GCC issue on Mac + byteorder, fix byteorder on Solaris, add fallback for endianess + conversion. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen (multiple cherry picks from + master). + * Build System: Out-of-tree builds have been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #2602 + * Configuration: Error handling in the config parsing code has been + improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Documentation: Fix typo in collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. + #2760 + * Documentation: update note on dpdkstat. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2613 + * Various plugins: Errors found by the static code analysis tool + Coverity were fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2559, #2560, #2561, + #2562, #2563, #2565, #2568, #2575, #2579, #2580, #2588, #2589 + * Ceph plugin: A segfault has been fixed. Thanks to Aleksei Zakharov and + Matthias Runge. #2572 + * DF plugin: fix memory leak in error case. Thanks to Takahashi tsc. + * Exec plugin: check return value of "plugin_thread_create()". Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Exec plugin: Handling of large groups has been fixed. Thanks to + Sridhar Mallem. #2696 + * Exec plugin: Incorrect use of *putenv(3)* has been fixed. Thanks to + Daniel Vrátil. + * Exec plugin: A deadlock related to setting environment variables after + *fork()* has been fixed. Thanks to Daniel Vrátil. + * Intel PMU plugin: add core groups feature. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski. + #2681 + * Intel PMU plugin: fix compatibility issue with collectd 5.8. Thanks to + Kamil Wiatrowski. + * Intel PMU plugin: fix possible "NULL" pointer dereference. Thanks to + Kamil Wiatrowski. #2676 + * IPMI plugin: A segfault caused by a wrong data type has been fixed. + Thanks to Mariusz Szafrański. #2742 + * IPMI plugin: The sensor configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyak. #2629 + * memcached plugin: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyak. #2612 + * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan-Philipp + Litza. #2076 + * NTPd plugin: A memory leak in the error handling path has been fixed. + Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2942 + * OVS Stats plugin: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to + Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2590 + * OVS Stats plugin: Fix reconnect after thread terminated. Thanks to + Volodymyr Mytnyk and Maram Tahhan. #2574 + * Perl plugin: A compilation failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyak. #2732 + * Perl plugin: Fix exporting notification meta data. Thanks to Florian + Forster. + * RRDtool plugin: Handling of very large "GAUGE" metrics has been fixed. + Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2566 + * Tail plugin: Several regressions have been fixed. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyak. #2535, #2587, #2611 + * turbostat plugin: A potential segfault due to an incorrect *free()* + has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2948 + * UUID plugin: Fix hostname setting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2723 + * virt plugin: A segfault during error handling has been fixed. Thanks + to Ruben Kerkhof. {{Issue|2919]} + * Write Kafka plugin: A build failure due to a deprecated API call has + been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2607, #2628, #2640 + * Write Prometheus plugin: Fix "MHD_USE_INTERNAL_POLLING_THREAD" flag in + newer libmicrohttpd. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2849 + * Write Prometheus plugin: set "SO_REUSEADDRESS" on listening socket. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2570, #2673 + * Write Syslog plugin: The new "write_syslog" plugin writes value + lists as syslog messages. Thanks to Shirly Radco. #3019 + +2017-11-17, Version 5.8.0 + * collectd: The core daemon is now completely licensed under the MIT + license. + * collectd: Added daemon option to avoid making BaseDir. Thanks to + Nathaniel Wesley Filardo and Florian Forster. #2422 + * collectd: Global variables have been moved to their own module to make + porting collectd easier. Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2467 + * collectd as well as Apache, memcached, OpenLDAP, Perl, RouterOS, SNMP, + Tail-CSV plugins: Free userdata for "plugin_register_complex_read()". + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2349 + * Collectd client library: Added parsing and server code. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #2258 + * Build system: Dependency on libltdl has been removed, support for + libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1898 + * Build system: The build system has been switched to non-recursive + make. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2085 + * APC UPS plugin: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a + "" block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack. #2351 + * Chrony plugin: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1 + server have been fixed. Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2190 + * Ceph plugin: Support for the Ceph version "Luminous" has been added. + Thanks to Aleksei Zakharov. #2464 + * CPU plugin : Linux-specific "guest" states have been added. Thanks to + Xavier G. #2439 + * cURL plugin, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, DBI, FileCount, memcachec, Oracle, + PostgreSQL, Table, Tail, Tail CSV plugins: The ability to configure + the "plugin" field of generated metrics has been added. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyack. #1944, #1681, #1558 + * cURL-JSON plugin: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #2281 + * DPDKEvents plugin: This new plugin reports link status and keep alive + events. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Serhiy Pshyk, + Kim-Marie Jones, Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw Szczerbik, Christian + Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2157, #2348, #2400, #2405, #2417 + * DPDKStat plugin: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related + utility functions reusable. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw + Szczerbik, Christian Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2130, #2348, #2400, + #2405, #2417 + * DPDKStat plugin: The "LogLevel" and "RteDriverLibPath" config options + have been added. Thanks to Jiri Prokes. #2505 + * Email plugin as well as Exec and Unixsock plugins: Use + "_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX". Thanks to Florian Forster. #2451 + * FileCount plugin: Custom values for reported plugin, type and type + instance. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1979 + * GenericJMX plugin: Support for "AtomicInteger" and "AtomicLong" has + been added. Thanks to Pierre Mauduit. #2158 + * gRPC plugin: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to Taylor + Cramer. #2378 + * IPC plugin: Fixed failed compilation on AIX. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack. #2357 + * Intel PMU plugin: This new plugin collects CPU performance metrics + using Intel's Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU). Scaling information + added to metadata. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk and Roman Korynkevych. + #2276, #2398, #2374 + * Intel RDT plugin: Support for collectd's logging infrastructure has + been added. PQoS monitoring groups are being reset on start-up to fix + potential previous unclean shutdowns. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych. + #2089. + * IPMI plugin: Support for System Event Log (SEL) has been added. Thanks + to Roman Korynkevych. #2091 + * IPMI plugin: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2024 + * LVM plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_ADMIN" capability has been added. + This will give users an informative warning when the process is not + running with the required privileges for this plugin. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #2426, #2499 + * mcelog plugin: This new plugin subscribes to Machine Check Exceptions + (MCE) and dispatches notifications. Metadata reset. Thanks to Maryam + Tahhan, Volodymyr Mytnyk, Taras Chornyi, Krzysztof Matczak and Roman + Korynkevych. #2003, #2246, #2380 + * MQTT plugin: Add support for TLS in "Subscriber" blocks. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #2434 + * memcached plugin: Persistent connections have been implemented. Fix + hit ratio reporting, add connections rate report. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack. #2388, #2385 + * memcached plugin: The type of the "listen_disabled" metric has been + changed to "total_events". Thanks to Florian Forster. #2386, #2468 + * Netlink plugin: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to + Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2053 + * NFS plugin: Support for NFS 4.2 metrics has been added. Thanks to + Marek Becka. #2369 + * NFS plugin: Config options to ignore specified NFS versions have been + added. Thanks to Christian Bartolomäus. #2430 + * NUT plugin: The "ConnectTimeout", "ForceSSL", "VerifyPeer" and + "CAPath" options have been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Steven + Bell. #2145, #2354 + * OpenLDAP plugin: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2377 + * Openvpn plugin: Added support for status files from latest OpenVPN-2.4 + and possible from future versions. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2352 + * OVS Events plugin: This new plugin reports link state changes from + Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #1971 + * OVS Stats plugin: This new plugin reports bridge / interface + statistics from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk and + Taras Chornyi. #2137 + * Perl plugin: Bugfix, added check of proper interpreter initialization. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2391 + * PostgreSQL plugin: The plugin now sets the "application_name" + parameter when connecting to the database. Thanks to daniacs. #2497 + * Processes plugin: The I/O operations reported for selected processes + has been fixed. The metric "ps_disk_octets" has been renamed to + "io_octets" because it actually contains the number of I/O operation + by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for "io_ops" + (previously "ps_disk_ops"). The new metric "disk_octets" has been + added and is reporting disk I/O only. Add option to collect the count + of active memory maps for Linux processes. The "CollectFileDescriptor" + and "CollectContextSwitch" options have been added. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack and to Wilfried Goesgens. #2232, #2454, #1989 + * Processes and TCPConns plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been + changed to use "kvm_openfiles" with "KVM_NO_FILES". Thanks to Jeremie + Courreges-Anglas. #2061 + * Python plugin: Extend Notification class to include metadata. Thanks + to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2135 + * Python plugin: The "CollectdException" class has been added. This + allows to throw an exception without a stack trace being logged. + Thanks to Sven Trenkel. #2330, #2346 + * Sensors plugin: Support for (electrical) current has been added. + Thanks to Clemens Gruber. #2255 + * SNMP plugin: Error handling has been improved: a potential double-free + is now avoided (potentially leaking memory) and handling of + non-failing subtrees has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2449 + * SNMP plugin: The "Timeout" and "Retries" config options have been + added. Thanks to Carlos Vicente. #1472, #2488 + * SNMP Agent plugin: This new plugin implements an SNMP AgentX subagent + that receives and handles queries from SNMP master agent and returns + configured metrics. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych, Serhiy Pshyk and + Pavel Rochnyack. #2105, #2362 + * Synproxy plugin: This new plugin provides statistics for Linux + SYNPROXY. Thanks to Marek Bečka. #2381 + * Tail plugin: Allow the calculation of several distributions in one + "tail" instance through a "bucket" type. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. + #2442 + * Turbostat plugin: Import "msr-index.h" header from Linux and better + support for mutliple packages. Thanks to Vincent Brillault. #2445, + #2446 + * Uptime plugin: Changed implementation to read from "/proc/uptime" + instead of "/proc/stat". Update for Linux and AIX, uptime is read + directly using a system call. Update for BSD and Solaris, uptime is + calculated by subtracting boot time from current time. Thanks to Ivan + Kurnosov and Marcin Jurkowski. #2431, #2034 + * UUID plugin: Support for libhal has been removed. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #2080 + * Varnish plugin: Extended the varnish plugin with varnish-plus + counters. Fixed invalid data source type. Thanks to Denes Matetelki. + #2453, #2463 + * virt plugin: The plugin has been updated to use + "virConnectListAllDomains()". Thanks to Denis Silakov. #2051 + * virt plugin: Support for domain tags has been added. Thanks to + Francesco Romani. #2048 + * virt plugin: Connection handling has been improved. Thanks to + Francesco Romani. #2100, #2101 + * virt plugin: Many metrics have been added, including disk, hypervisor + CPU usage, performance monitoring events, domain state, CPU pinning + (affinity), file system, and job statistics. Thanks to Francesco + Romani and Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2103, #2175, #2168 + * Write Graphite plugin: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Write HTTP plugin: The "Attribute" and "TTL" options for the KairosDB + format have been added. Implementation of "Prefix" option. Thanks to + jaroug, Denis Pompilio and Pavel Rochnyack. #2199, #2252, #2482 + * Write MongoDB plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to + Saikrishna Arcot. #2307 + * Write Prometheus plugin: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks + to Florian Forster. #2035 + * Write Redis plugin: Add "max_set_duration" to set duration for value. + Thanks to Tomofumi Hayashi. #2440 + * Write Riemann plugin: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks + to mcorbin. #2315 + * Write TSDB plugin: The options "ResolveInterval" and "ResolveJitter" + have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS + flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to Yves Mettier and + Florian Forster. #2059 + * ZFS ARC plugin: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux + implementation. Thanks to YmrDtnJu. #2097 + +2017-06-06, Version 5.7.2 + * Build system: The Notify Email plugin is no longer linked with + indirect dependencies. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * collectd: A race condition when calculating a metric's rate has been + fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1193 + * AMQP, Exec, UnixSock, Write Kafka plugins: Parsing of the PUTVAL + command with multiple values has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #2274 + * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for + publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286 + * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND. + Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local timezone when in + fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268 + * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + #2303 + * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #2266 + * DPDKStat plugin: Error handling during initialization has been + improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * DPDKStat plugin: Handling of a number of metrics has been improved, + for example "rx_q0bytes". Thanks to Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2167 + * Intel RDT plugin: Configuration handling has been changed to be more + graceful. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2165 + * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to + "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on + "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching + infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192 + * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a + resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123 + * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be + triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server + which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski + and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401 + * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #2278 + * Processes plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyack. #2210 + * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been + added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a + metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter + values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209 + * Write Prometheus plugin: An incorrect use of "realloc(3)" has been + fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2275 + +2017-01-23, Version 5.7.1 + * collectd: Handling of boolean configuration options has been unified. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098 + * collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #2108 + * collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and + coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian + Forster. + * Build system: Parallel build have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + #2110 + * DPDKStat plugin: Portability issues and a double-close bug have been + fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Marc Fournier. + * Intel RDT plugin: A check for the libpqos library version has been + added. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk. + * NetApp plugin: Compilation problems have been corrected. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #2120 + * Write Prometheus plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. + +2016-12-12, Version 5.7.0 + * Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks + to Florian Forster + * Documentation: The semantics of the "TypesDB" option have been + improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been + added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749 + * collectd: Threads now get named, making them easier to track using + tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada + and Marc Fournier. #547 + * AMQP plugin, Write Graphite plugin, Write Kafka plugin: The new + "[Graphite]PreserveSeparator" option allows retaining the default dot + separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419 + * Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been + added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795 + * CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang. + #1957 + * Collectd::Unixsock: Fractional seconds support has been made more + robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052 + * DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics. + Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim + Jones. #1649 + * gRPC plugin: The "DispatchValues" option has been renamed to + "PutValues". Thanks to Florian Forster. + * HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to + Benjamin Gilbert. #631 + * Hugepages plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used and free + hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones + and Florian Forster. #1799 + * Intel RDT plugin: This new plugin collects statistics exposed by + Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970 + * memcached plugin: The new "Address" option allows connecting to a + different server than specified by the "Host" option. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack. #1975 + * nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609 + * Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new + "RegisterLegacyFlush" option has been added. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack. #1731 + * PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time. + Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918 + * Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981 + * RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed + operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959 + * SpamAssassin: The plugin can now run in Perl's "tainted mode" ("-T"). + Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962 + * Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching + values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster. + #1700 + * Tail plugin: The new "GaugePersist" option has been added. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #2015 + * Target:Set, Target:Replace, Match:RegEx: MetaData support has been + added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930 + * turbostat plugin: The new "LogicalCoreNames" option allows switching + to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056 + * virt plugin: The new "BlockDeviceFormat" and + "BlockDeviceFormatBasename" options help controlling the names + reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004 + * Write Graphite plugin: A new "DropDuplicateFields" option has been + added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915 + * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" setting has been reintroduced. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977 + * Write Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been + added, using the new "Format" configuration option. Thanks to Igor + Peshansky. #1924 + * Write Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an + embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus' + collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967 + +2017-10-06, Version 5.6.3 + * collectd: support for boolean string config values has been + reintroduced. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098 + * collectd: The capability checking has been changed to use + "cap_get_proc()". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2151 + * Documentation: A section documenting ignore lists has been added to + collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Florian Forster. + * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for + publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286 + * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP + plugins: Handling of URLs that redirect elsewhere has been fixed. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2328 + * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND. + Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local time zone when in + fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268 + * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + #2303 + * Chrony plugin: Build flags have been fixed. Thanks to Thomas Jost and + Marc Fournier. #2133 + * cURL-JSON plugin: The timeout value has been changed to default to the + collection interval. This fixes a regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #2266 + * DBI plugin: Memory leaks at shutdown have been fixes. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack and Florian Forster. + * E-Mail, Exec, UnixSock plugins: Group ID lookup on systems with many + groups has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian Forster. + #2208 + * IPC plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack. #2305 + * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on + "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to + "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching + infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192 + * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a + resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123 + * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be + triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server + which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski + and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401 + * Network plugin: A use-after-free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel + Rochnyack. #2375 + * Notify Email plugin: The plugin is no longer explicitly linked against + libssl and libcrypto, relies on libesmtp being linked correctly. + Thanks to Marc Fournier. Debian#852924 + * NTPd plugin: Calculation of loop offset and error has been fixed. + Thanks to Neil Wilson. #2188 + * OpenLDAP plugin: An incorrect use of the ldap library, leading to a + crash, has been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2331 + * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #2278 + * Perl plugin: Print an error when an incorrect configuration is + encountered. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #927 + * RRDtool plugin: Incorrect handling of the flushes timeout option has + been fixed. Handling of the "RandomTimeout" has been fixed. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyack. #2363 + * SMART plugin: Some warning messages have been removed and the code has + been cleaned up. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2062 + * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been + added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * SNMP plugin: A double free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. + #2291 + * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a + metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter + values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209 + * Write Kafka plugin: A 32 bit random number is now used when formatting + a random key. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2074 + + +2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2 + * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not + available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang. + * collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more + portable. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2009 + * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which + caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely. Thanks to Florian + Forster. + * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made + deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #1523 + * Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved. Thanks + to Ruben Kerkhof. + * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of + reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025 + * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyack. #1932 + * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can + correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing + null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala. + * Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the + data set has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1996 + * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977 + * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added. + Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks + to Florian Forster. + * ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #1963 + +2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1 + * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with + libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + Debian#839771, #1976 + * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a + segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #1954 + * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. + * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling + JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Forster. #1896 + * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and + "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd + Zeimetz. #1905 + * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to + Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877 + * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been + fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile + time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953 + * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks + being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955 + +2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0 + * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS + has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878 + * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config + are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #1222 + * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been + fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, + Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya. + * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in + config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from + the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366 + * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been + added. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to + Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254 + * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks. + Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. + * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks + to Corey Kosak. #1642 + * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN") + has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy + Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120 + * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves + Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913 + * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has + been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to + Florian Forster #617 + * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added. + Thanks to Florian Forster #617 + * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running + unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient + permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530 + * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP + server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548 + * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep + sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826 + * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien + Wernli. + * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports + various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004 + * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks. + Thanks to Michal Bebjak. + * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li, + Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling. + * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks + to Florian Forster. #1813 + * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option + have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291 + * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by + and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346 + * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and + receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock + plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian + Forster. + * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to + Marc Falzon. #1555 + * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users + skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791 + * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been + added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416 + * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the + Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and + Ruben Kerkhof. + * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added. + Thanks to Brian ONeill. + * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics + from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas + Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124 + * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over + SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256 + * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob. + #1773 + * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to + mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative. + Thanks to Marek Becka. + * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to + Rachid Zarouali. #1849 + * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman + Gupta. #1111 + * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different + types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592 + * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyack. #1735 + * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as + a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports + nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov. + #1783 + * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been + made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308 + * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added. + Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087 + * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data + payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395 + * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option + has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707 + * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and + missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux. + Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036 + * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux. + Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. + * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to + 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864 + * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to + Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483 + * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to + Christian Fetzer. + * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks + to Scott Talbert. #1770 + * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in + a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794 + * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to + Vincent Bernat. #1397 + * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink + automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622 + * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311 + * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and + "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490 + * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks + to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100 + * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added. + Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster. + * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to + Aurélien Rougemont. #1809 + * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin. + Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to + vzubko. + * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP + headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634 + * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and + reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent + Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393 + * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and + "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and + Sebastian Pfahl. + * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option + have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy. + * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client + library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to + Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986 + * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB + plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from + unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549 + * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats. + Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608 + * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of + obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben + Kerkhof. + * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris. + Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen. + +2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3 + * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are + called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110 + * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not + available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang. + * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the + environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105 + * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made + deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #1523 + * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of + reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025 + * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type + to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power. + Thanks to Florian Forster. + * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type + instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4 + * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing + unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896 + * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks + to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877 + * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian + Forster. + * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization + has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling + "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is + actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #1902 + * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent, + fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster. + #869 + * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries + have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not + available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905 + * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can + correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of + different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has + been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877 + * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing + null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala. + * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added. + Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks + to Florian Forster. + +2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2 + * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the + "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak. + * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed + in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been + fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof. + * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been + added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating + more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp. + * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to + Ruben Kerkhof. #1575 + * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names. + This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas + Guthmann. #1059 + * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure + has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire. + * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is + now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric + Sandeen and Marc Fournier. + * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has + been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was + ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665 + * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code. + This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable. + Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254 + * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially + single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which + create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706 + * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been + added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284 + * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been + fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. + * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been + corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483. + * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyack. #1724 + * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyack #1703 + * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during + shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan. + * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed. + Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for + FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580 + 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan @@ -350,6 +1424,184 @@ * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826 +2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3 + * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was + corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed. + * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia + versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129 + * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis + Sanmartín Rozada. #542 + * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to + Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof. + * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks + to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348 + * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof and Marc Fournier. + * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been + fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it + build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks + to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle + java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when + called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't + available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when + libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061 + * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library + detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud + van Melick. #1103 + * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of + precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039 + * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed. + Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316 + * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing + plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069 + * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration + file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035 + * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed + in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled. + Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104 + * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been + added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''. + #1496 + * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0. + Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008 + * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been + added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response, + required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to + Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343 + * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name. + Thanks to Sergey. #1329 + * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to + Thomas Kho. #992 + * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #22 + * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. + * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating + more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp. + * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes + such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096 + * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to + Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402 + * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been + removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402 + * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been + removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. + * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when + possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163 + * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names. + This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas + Guthmann. #1059 + * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to + run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc + Fournier. #762 + * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure + has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire. + * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the + ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. + * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any + counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971 + * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is + now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric + Sandeen and Marc Fournier. + * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to + the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to + Florian Forster. #956 + * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has + been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored. + Thanks to @yujokang. #1665 + * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code. + This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable. + Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254 + * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust. + Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654 + * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added. + Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. + * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match + the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian + Forster. #1300 + * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when + no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731 + * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially + single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which + create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706 + * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build + properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. + * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has + been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak. + * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to + Jim Quinn. + * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to + also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019 + * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been + added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284 + * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD + platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298 + * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris. + Thanks to Jan Andres. #919 + * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel. + #1285 + * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation + has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031 + * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902. + Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325 + * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to + Pavel Rochnyack #1703 + * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster. + #997 + * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the + plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster. + * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above + 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga + Ramalingam. #401 + * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions + have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655 + * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks + to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311 + * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is + recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039 + * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when + negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131 + * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple + "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified. + Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032 + * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. + #1074 + * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on + OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094 + * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in + different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551 + * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been + added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307 + * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to + report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072 + * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the + server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364 + * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during + shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan. + * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by + adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and + Florian Forster. #1070 + * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to + Florian Forster. + * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing + "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919 + * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components, + fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build, + libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent, + Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli. + 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