X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=f990dd46c994b2912ed84bdcada46f9b3cf43879;hp=84e25b83f3e1a19b69d223f980703a288aca99cf;hb=6d63f6e9834c838e0a6469d9eaf17feffa3b2959;hpb=c1219a1c9db2e8400e2ee94b87f86ccd441485d5 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 84e25b83..f990dd46 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,1057 @@ +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 + Berkley. #1063 + * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds + work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125 + * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit + tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and + Dagobert Michelsen. #1077 + * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been + reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to + Benjamin Drung;. #1323 + * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks + to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195 + * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has + been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075 + * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues + with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237 + * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed + added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof. + * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been + improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster. + * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #1338 + * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked + against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read. + Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123 + * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0 + and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350 + * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin + expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read + callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert + Viduya. + * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to + Robert Viduya. #1065 + * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks + to Natanael Copa. #1147 + * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was + fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190 + * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks + to Marc Fournier. #1132 + * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed. + Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356 + * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was + fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085 + * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed. + Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080 + * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #1489 + * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian + Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076 + * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported + in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. + #1071 + * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben + Kerkhof. #1182 + * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more + tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc + Fournier. #1302 + * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been + fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101 + * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to + Shahul Hameed. #1171 + * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly. + #1143 + * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components, + fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build, + libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, + Florian Forster and Marek Becka. + * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac + An Iomaire. #1295 + +2015-05-27, 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: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of + available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043 + * 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, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296, + #464, #475, #799, #1030 + * 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 + +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 @@ -1835,7 +2889,7 @@ 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. @@ -1900,7 +2954,7 @@ 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