1 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
2 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
3 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
4 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
6 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
7 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
8 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
10 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
12 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
13 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
14 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
15 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
16 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
17 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
18 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
19 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
20 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
21 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
22 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
23 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
24 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
26 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
27 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
28 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
29 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
30 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
31 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
32 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
33 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
34 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
35 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
36 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
38 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
39 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
40 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
42 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
43 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
44 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
45 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
46 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
47 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
48 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
49 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
50 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
51 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
53 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
54 Thanks to Florian Forster.
55 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
56 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
57 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
58 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
59 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
60 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
61 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
63 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
65 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
66 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
67 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
68 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
69 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
71 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
73 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
74 to Florian Forster. #733
75 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
76 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
77 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
79 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
80 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
81 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
82 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
83 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
85 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
86 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
88 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
91 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
92 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
93 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
94 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
95 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
96 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
97 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
98 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
99 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
100 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
101 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
102 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
103 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
104 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
105 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
106 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
107 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
108 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
109 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
110 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
111 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
112 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
113 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
115 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
116 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
117 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
118 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
119 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
120 plugins for which a configuration is found.
121 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
122 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
123 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
124 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
125 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
127 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
128 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
129 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
130 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
131 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
132 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
133 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
134 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
135 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
136 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
137 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
138 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
139 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
140 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
142 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
143 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
144 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
145 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
146 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
147 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
148 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
150 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
151 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
152 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
153 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
154 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
155 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
156 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
157 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
158 metrics in the StatsD format.
159 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
160 Nick Stenning for his patch.
161 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
162 Javier Maestro for his patch.
163 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
164 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
167 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
168 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
169 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
170 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
172 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
173 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
174 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
176 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
178 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
179 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
180 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
181 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
182 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
183 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
184 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
185 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
186 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
187 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
188 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
189 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
190 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
192 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
194 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
195 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
196 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
197 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
198 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
199 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
200 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
201 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
202 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
203 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
204 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
206 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
207 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
208 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
209 Florian Forster. #663
210 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
211 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
212 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
213 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
214 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
215 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
217 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
218 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
219 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
220 Thanks to Florian Forster.
221 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
222 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
223 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
225 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
226 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
227 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
228 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
229 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
231 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
233 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
234 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
235 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
237 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
238 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
239 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
240 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
241 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
242 Ritschard. #610, #804
243 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
244 to Florian Forster. #733
245 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
246 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
247 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
249 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
250 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
251 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
253 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
256 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
257 * Documentation: Various fixes.
258 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
259 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
260 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
261 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
262 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
263 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
264 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
265 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
266 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
267 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
268 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
269 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
270 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
271 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
273 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
274 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
275 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
277 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
278 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
279 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
280 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
281 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
282 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
283 can now be set via the configuration file.
284 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
285 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
286 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
287 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
288 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
289 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
290 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
291 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
292 Greg Mason for his patch.
293 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
294 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
295 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
296 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
297 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
298 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
299 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
300 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
301 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
302 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
303 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
304 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
305 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
307 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
308 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
309 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
310 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
312 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
313 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
314 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
315 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
316 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
317 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
318 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
319 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
320 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
321 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
322 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
323 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
324 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
325 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
326 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
327 Tomas Doran for his patch.
328 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
329 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
330 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
331 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
332 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
333 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
334 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
335 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
336 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
337 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
338 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
339 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
340 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
341 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
342 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
345 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
346 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
347 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
348 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
349 more frequently than intended.
350 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
351 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
352 Ed Schouten for his patch.
353 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
354 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
355 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
356 Ed Schouten for his patch.
357 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
358 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
359 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
361 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
362 Ritschard for his patch.
363 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
364 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
365 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
366 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
367 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
368 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
370 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
371 Mettier for reporting this bug.
373 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
374 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
375 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
376 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
377 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
379 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
380 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
382 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
383 in the binary format has been added.
384 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
385 value lists into one.
386 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
387 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
388 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
389 Thomas Meson for the patch.
390 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
391 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
392 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
394 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
396 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
397 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
398 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
399 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
400 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
401 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
402 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
403 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
404 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
405 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
407 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
408 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
409 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
410 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
411 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
412 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
413 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
414 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
415 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
416 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
417 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
418 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
419 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
420 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
422 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
423 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
424 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
425 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
426 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
427 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
428 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
429 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
430 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
431 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
432 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
433 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
434 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
435 Tomas Doran for his patch.
436 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
437 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
438 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
439 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
440 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
441 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
442 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
443 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
444 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
445 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
446 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
447 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
448 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
451 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
452 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
453 Mettier for his patches.
454 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
455 more frequently than intended.
456 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
457 Ed Schouten for his patch.
458 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
459 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
460 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
461 Ed Schouten for his patch.
462 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
463 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
464 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
466 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
467 Mettier for reporting this bug.
469 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
470 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
471 unwanted permission bits.
472 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
473 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
474 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
475 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
476 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
477 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
478 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
479 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
480 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
482 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
483 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
484 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
485 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
486 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
487 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
488 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
489 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
490 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
491 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
492 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
493 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
495 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
496 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
497 reporting these problems.
498 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
499 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
500 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
501 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
502 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
504 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
505 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
506 "KIvosak" for the patch.
507 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
508 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
509 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
510 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
511 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
513 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
514 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
515 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
516 "biancalana" for the fix.
517 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
518 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
519 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
520 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
521 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
523 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
524 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
525 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
526 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
528 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
529 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
531 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
532 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
533 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
534 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
535 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
536 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
537 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
538 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
539 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
540 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
541 Ritschard for his patch.
542 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
543 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
545 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
546 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
548 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
550 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
551 Ioiart for his patch.
552 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
553 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
554 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
555 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
556 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
558 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
559 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
560 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
561 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
562 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
563 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
564 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
565 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
566 Aaron Brady for his patch.
567 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
568 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
569 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
570 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
571 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
572 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
573 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
574 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
576 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
577 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
578 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
579 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
581 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
582 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
583 unwanted permission bits.
584 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
585 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
586 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
587 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
588 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
589 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
590 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
591 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
592 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
594 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
595 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
596 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
597 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
598 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
599 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
600 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
601 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
602 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
603 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
604 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
605 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
607 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
608 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
609 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
610 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
611 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
613 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
614 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
615 "KIvosak" for the patch.
616 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
617 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
618 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
619 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
620 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
622 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
623 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
624 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
625 "biancalana" for the fix.
626 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
627 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
628 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
629 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
630 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
633 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
634 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
635 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
637 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
638 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
640 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
641 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
642 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
644 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
645 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
647 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
648 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
650 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
651 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
653 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
654 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
656 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
657 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
658 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
659 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
660 runtime has been fixed.
662 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
663 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
664 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
665 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
667 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
668 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
669 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
670 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
671 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
672 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
673 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
675 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
677 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
678 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
679 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
680 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
681 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
683 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
684 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
685 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
686 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
687 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
689 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
690 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
691 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
692 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
694 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
695 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
696 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
697 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
698 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
699 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
700 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
701 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
702 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
705 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
706 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
707 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
708 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
709 to Peter Green for his patch.
710 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
711 McCabe for the patch.
712 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
713 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
714 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
715 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
716 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
717 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
718 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
719 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
720 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
721 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
722 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
723 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
724 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
725 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
726 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
727 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
728 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
729 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
730 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
731 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
734 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
735 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
736 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
737 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
738 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
739 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
740 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
741 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
743 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
744 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
745 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
746 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
747 added to the collectd client library.
748 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
749 one data source has been changed to "value".
750 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
751 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
752 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
753 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
754 maximum value is unspecified.
755 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
756 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
757 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
758 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
759 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
760 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
761 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
762 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
763 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
764 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
766 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
767 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
769 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
771 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
773 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
774 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
775 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
776 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
778 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
779 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
780 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
781 data sets used have been improved.
782 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
784 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
785 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
786 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
787 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
788 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
789 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
790 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
791 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
792 this separate plugin.
793 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
794 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
795 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
796 Fournier for their contributions.
797 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
799 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
801 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
804 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
805 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
806 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
807 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
808 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
809 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
810 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
811 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
812 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
813 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
814 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
815 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
816 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
817 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
818 Tomas Doran for his patch.
819 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
820 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
821 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
822 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
825 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
826 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
827 unwanted permission bits.
828 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
829 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
830 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
831 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
832 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
833 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
834 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
835 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
836 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
837 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
838 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
839 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
840 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
841 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
842 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
843 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
845 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
846 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
847 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
849 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
850 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
851 "KIvosak" for the patch.
852 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
853 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
854 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
855 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
856 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
858 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
859 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
860 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
861 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
862 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
863 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
864 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
867 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
868 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
869 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
871 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
872 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
874 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
875 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
876 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
878 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
879 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
881 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
882 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
884 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
885 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
887 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
888 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
890 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
891 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
892 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
893 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
894 runtime has been fixed.
896 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
897 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
898 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
899 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
901 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
902 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
903 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
904 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
905 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
906 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
907 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
909 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
911 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
912 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
913 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
914 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
915 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
917 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
918 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
919 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
920 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
921 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
923 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
924 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
925 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
926 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
928 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
929 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
930 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
931 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
932 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
933 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
934 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
935 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
936 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
939 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
940 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
941 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
942 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
943 to Peter Green for his patch.
944 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
945 McCabe for the patch.
946 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
947 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
948 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
950 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
951 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
952 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
953 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
954 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
955 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
956 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
957 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
958 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
959 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
960 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
961 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
964 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
965 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
966 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
968 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
969 percentage calculation has been fixed.
970 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
972 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
973 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
974 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
975 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
976 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
978 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
979 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
982 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
983 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
984 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
985 the rest of the configuration if possible.
986 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
987 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
988 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
989 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
990 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
991 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
992 configurable timeout value.
993 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
994 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
995 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
996 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
997 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
998 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
999 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1001 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1002 to prevent spamming the logs.
1003 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1004 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1005 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1006 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1008 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1010 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1011 Trenkel for the patch.
1013 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1014 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1015 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1016 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1017 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1019 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1020 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1021 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1023 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1024 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1025 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1026 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1027 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1028 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1029 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1030 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1031 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1032 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1034 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1035 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1036 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1037 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1038 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1039 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1040 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1042 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1044 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1045 lines from the match.
1046 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1047 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1049 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1050 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1051 Malek for the patch.
1052 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1053 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1055 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1056 certain lines from the match.
1057 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1058 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1059 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1060 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1061 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1062 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1063 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
1064 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
1065 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
1066 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
1067 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
1068 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
1069 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
1070 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
1071 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
1072 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
1073 Sebastian Harl for his work.
1074 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
1075 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
1076 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
1077 Sven Trenkel for his work.
1078 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
1079 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
1080 MikroTik devices has been added.
1081 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
1082 Scraba for his patch.
1083 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1084 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
1085 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
1086 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
1087 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
1088 Ammous for his patch.
1090 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
1091 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1092 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1094 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1095 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1096 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1098 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1099 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1100 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1101 error handling case.
1102 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1103 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1106 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
1107 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1108 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1109 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1110 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1111 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1112 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1113 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1114 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1115 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1116 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1117 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1118 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1119 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1120 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1121 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1123 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1124 to prevent spamming the logs.
1125 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1126 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1127 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1128 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1130 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1131 Trenkel for the patch.
1133 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
1134 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1135 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1136 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
1137 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1139 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
1140 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1141 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1142 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1144 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1145 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1146 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1147 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1148 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1149 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
1150 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
1151 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1152 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1153 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1154 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1155 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1157 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
1158 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1159 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1160 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1161 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1162 figuring out a way to make this work.
1163 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1164 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1165 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1166 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1167 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1169 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1171 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1172 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1173 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
1174 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
1175 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1176 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1177 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1178 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1180 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1181 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1182 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1183 an unknown data source type.
1184 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1185 packets has been fixed.
1186 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
1188 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1189 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1190 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1191 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1192 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1193 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1195 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
1196 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1197 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
1198 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
1199 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
1200 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
1201 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1202 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1203 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1205 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
1206 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
1207 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
1210 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
1211 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
1212 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
1213 Weiskircher for the patch.
1214 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
1215 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1216 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
1217 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
1218 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
1219 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
1220 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
1221 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
1222 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
1223 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
1224 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
1225 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
1226 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
1228 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
1229 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1230 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
1231 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
1232 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
1233 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1234 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
1235 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1236 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
1237 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
1238 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
1239 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
1240 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
1241 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
1242 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
1243 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1244 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
1245 storage has been added.
1246 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
1247 value has been added.
1249 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
1250 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
1251 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
1252 an unknown data source type.
1254 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
1255 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
1256 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
1257 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
1258 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
1259 figuring out a way to make this work.
1260 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
1261 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
1262 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
1263 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
1265 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
1267 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
1268 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
1269 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
1270 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
1271 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
1272 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
1274 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
1275 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
1276 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
1277 packets has been fixed.
1278 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
1279 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
1280 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
1281 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
1282 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
1283 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1285 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
1286 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
1287 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
1288 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
1289 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
1292 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
1293 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1294 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1295 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1296 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1297 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1299 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
1300 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
1301 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1302 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1303 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1304 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1306 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1307 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1308 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1309 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1311 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
1312 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1314 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1315 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1316 issues on some platforms.
1317 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1318 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1319 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1320 descriptor handling.
1322 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
1323 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
1324 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
1325 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
1326 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
1327 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
1329 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
1330 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
1331 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
1332 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1333 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
1334 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
1335 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1336 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
1337 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1338 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
1339 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
1341 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
1342 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
1343 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
1344 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
1345 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
1346 Aman Gupta for the patch.
1347 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
1348 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
1349 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
1350 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
1351 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
1353 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
1354 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
1356 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
1357 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
1358 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1359 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
1360 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
1361 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
1362 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
1363 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
1364 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
1365 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
1366 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
1367 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
1368 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
1369 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
1371 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
1372 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
1373 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
1374 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
1375 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
1376 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
1378 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
1379 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
1380 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
1381 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
1383 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
1384 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
1385 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
1386 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
1388 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
1389 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
1391 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
1392 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
1393 issues on some platforms.
1394 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
1395 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
1396 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
1397 descriptor handling.
1399 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
1400 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
1401 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1402 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1403 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1404 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1406 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
1407 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1408 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1409 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1410 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1411 Hess for reporting this bug.
1412 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1413 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1414 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1415 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1416 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
1417 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
1418 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
1419 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
1420 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1421 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1422 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
1423 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
1424 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
1425 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
1426 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1427 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1428 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1431 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
1432 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
1434 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1435 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1436 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1437 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1438 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1439 for reporting the bug.
1440 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
1442 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
1443 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
1444 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
1445 libtool 2.2 has been added.
1446 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1447 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1448 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1449 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1450 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1452 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
1453 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
1454 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
1455 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
1456 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
1458 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1459 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1461 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
1462 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
1463 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1464 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
1465 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
1466 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
1467 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1468 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
1469 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
1470 Konetzko for the patch.
1471 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
1472 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
1473 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
1474 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
1475 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
1476 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
1477 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
1478 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
1479 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
1480 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
1481 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
1482 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
1483 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1484 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
1485 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
1486 Quiédeville for the patch.
1487 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
1489 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
1490 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
1491 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
1492 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
1493 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
1494 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
1495 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
1496 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
1498 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
1499 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
1500 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
1501 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
1502 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
1503 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
1505 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
1506 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
1507 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
1508 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
1510 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
1511 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
1512 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
1513 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
1514 Hess for reporting this bug.
1515 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
1516 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
1517 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
1518 is linked with the shipped library, too.
1519 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
1520 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
1521 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
1522 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
1523 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
1526 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
1527 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
1528 Díaz for fixing this bug.
1529 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
1530 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
1531 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
1532 for reporting the bug.
1534 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
1535 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1536 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1537 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1538 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1539 providing an OpenBSD system.
1540 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
1541 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
1542 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
1543 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
1544 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
1546 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1548 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1549 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1550 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1551 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1552 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1554 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1555 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
1556 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1558 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
1559 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
1560 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
1561 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
1563 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
1564 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
1565 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
1566 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
1567 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
1568 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
1569 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
1570 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
1571 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
1572 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
1573 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1574 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1575 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1577 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
1578 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
1579 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1580 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
1581 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
1582 for finding and fixing most of them.
1583 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1584 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1586 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
1587 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
1588 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
1589 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
1590 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1591 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
1592 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
1593 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
1594 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
1595 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
1596 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
1598 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
1599 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
1600 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
1601 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
1603 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
1604 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
1605 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
1606 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
1607 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
1608 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
1609 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
1610 Kuhnle for the patch.
1611 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
1612 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
1613 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
1614 MacEachern for the patch.
1615 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
1616 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
1617 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
1618 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
1619 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
1620 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
1621 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
1622 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
1623 select interfaces, too.
1624 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
1625 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
1626 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
1628 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
1629 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
1630 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
1631 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
1632 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
1633 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
1634 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
1635 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
1636 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
1637 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
1639 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
1640 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
1641 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
1642 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
1643 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
1644 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
1645 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
1646 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
1648 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
1649 been added. Portability fixes.
1650 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
1651 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
1652 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
1654 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
1657 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
1658 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
1659 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
1660 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
1661 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
1662 providing an OpenBSD system.
1663 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
1664 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
1666 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
1667 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
1668 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
1669 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
1670 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
1671 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
1673 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
1674 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
1675 initialized, the daemon may crash.
1676 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
1678 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
1679 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
1681 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
1682 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
1683 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
1685 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
1686 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
1687 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
1688 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
1690 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
1691 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1692 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1693 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1695 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1696 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1697 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
1698 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
1699 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
1700 provide these necessary functions.
1701 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1702 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
1704 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
1705 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1706 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1707 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
1709 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1710 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1711 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1712 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1713 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1714 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1716 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
1717 invalid configuration options.
1718 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1719 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1720 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1722 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
1723 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1724 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1725 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1727 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1728 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1729 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1730 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1731 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1732 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1733 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1734 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1736 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1737 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1738 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
1739 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
1740 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1741 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1742 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1743 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
1744 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
1745 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
1746 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
1747 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
1749 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1750 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1753 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
1754 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
1755 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
1757 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
1758 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
1759 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
1760 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
1761 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
1762 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
1764 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
1765 email, using the `esmtp' library.
1766 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
1767 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
1769 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
1770 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
1771 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
1772 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
1774 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
1775 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
1776 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
1777 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
1778 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
1780 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
1781 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
1782 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
1784 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
1785 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
1786 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
1787 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
1789 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
1790 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
1791 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
1792 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
1793 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
1794 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
1795 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
1796 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
1797 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
1798 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
1799 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
1800 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
1802 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
1803 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
1804 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
1806 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
1807 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
1808 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
1809 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
1811 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
1812 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
1813 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
1814 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
1815 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
1816 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
1817 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
1818 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
1820 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
1821 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
1822 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
1823 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
1824 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
1825 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
1826 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
1829 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
1830 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
1831 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1833 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1834 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
1836 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
1837 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
1838 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
1839 architecture collectd is being built on.
1840 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
1842 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
1844 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
1845 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
1846 values under Solaris.
1847 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
1848 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
1850 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
1851 returned by some broken drivers.
1853 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
1854 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
1855 to kyrone for reporting this.
1856 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
1858 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
1860 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
1861 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
1862 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
1863 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
1865 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
1866 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
1867 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
1868 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
1869 flush its values to disk.
1870 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
1871 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
1872 for each data source.
1873 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
1875 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
1876 page of an Ascent server.
1877 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1878 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
1879 specific disks has been added.
1880 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1881 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
1882 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
1884 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
1885 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
1886 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
1887 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
1888 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
1889 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
1890 configuration has been decreased.
1891 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
1892 continuously reading from log files.
1893 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
1894 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
1895 and number of channels.
1896 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
1897 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
1898 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
1900 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
1901 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
1903 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
1905 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
1906 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
1907 again has been applied.
1908 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
1910 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
1911 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
1913 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1914 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
1915 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
1918 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
1919 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1920 they are in non-standard paths.
1921 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1922 if the libc expects it.
1923 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1924 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
1926 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
1927 using a buffer of static size.
1928 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
1930 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
1931 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
1933 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
1934 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
1935 `Persist' threshold options.
1936 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
1937 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
1938 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
1939 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
1940 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
1942 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
1943 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
1945 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
1946 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
1947 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
1948 cross-platform compatibility.
1949 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
1950 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
1951 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
1953 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
1954 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
1955 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
1956 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
1957 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
1958 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
1960 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
1961 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
1962 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
1963 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
1964 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
1965 wants to add custom type definitions.
1966 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
1967 entire directories and shell wildcards.
1968 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
1969 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
1970 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
1971 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
1972 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
1973 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
1974 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
1975 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
1976 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
1977 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
1978 domain name lookups in this plugin.
1979 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
1980 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
1981 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
1982 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
1983 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
1984 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
1985 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
1986 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
1987 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
1988 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
1989 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
1990 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
1991 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
1992 Technology group for this plugin.
1994 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
1995 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
1996 they are in non-standard paths.
1997 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
1998 if the libc expects it.
1999 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2000 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2002 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2003 using a buffer of static size.
2004 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2006 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2007 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2009 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2010 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2011 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2012 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2013 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2015 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2016 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2017 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2019 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2020 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2021 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2022 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2023 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2024 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2025 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2026 cross-platform compatibility.
2027 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2028 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2029 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2030 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2032 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2033 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2034 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2035 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2036 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2038 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2039 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2040 of the libsensors library.
2042 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2043 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2044 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2046 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2047 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2050 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2051 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2052 enabled on the host.
2053 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2055 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2056 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2057 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2058 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2059 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2060 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2061 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2062 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2063 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
2064 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
2065 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
2066 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
2067 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
2068 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
2069 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
2070 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2071 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2072 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
2073 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
2074 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
2075 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
2076 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
2077 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
2078 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
2079 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
2080 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
2082 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
2083 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2084 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2085 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2086 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2088 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
2089 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
2091 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2092 of the libsensors library.
2094 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
2095 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
2096 it's in a non-standard location.
2097 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
2098 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
2099 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
2100 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
2101 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
2102 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2104 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
2105 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
2107 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
2108 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
2110 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
2111 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2112 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2113 noise quality as percentage.
2114 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2115 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
2116 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
2117 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
2118 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
2119 support for the `timeticks' type.
2121 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
2122 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
2123 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
2124 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
2126 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2127 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2128 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2130 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2131 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2132 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2133 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2135 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
2136 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
2137 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
2138 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
2140 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
2141 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
2142 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
2143 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
2144 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
2145 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
2146 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
2147 to not block data collection.
2148 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
2149 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
2150 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
2152 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
2153 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
2154 of music played with xmms.
2156 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
2157 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
2158 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2159 noise quality as percentage.
2160 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
2162 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
2163 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
2164 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
2165 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
2167 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
2168 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
2169 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
2170 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
2172 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
2173 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
2175 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
2176 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
2177 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
2178 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
2179 (i. e. without quotes).
2180 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
2181 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
2182 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2184 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
2185 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
2186 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
2187 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
2189 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
2190 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
2191 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
2194 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
2195 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
2197 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
2198 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2199 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
2200 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2201 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
2202 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
2203 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
2205 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
2206 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
2207 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
2208 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
2209 initialized correctly.
2210 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
2212 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
2213 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
2214 they're given in numerically form.
2216 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
2217 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
2218 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
2221 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
2222 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
2223 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
2224 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
2225 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
2226 thread-safe functions from now on.
2227 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
2228 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
2229 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
2231 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
2232 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
2233 write to increase IO-performance.
2234 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
2235 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
2236 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
2237 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
2238 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
2240 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
2241 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
2242 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
2244 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
2245 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
2246 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
2247 or STDOUT or STDERR.
2248 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
2249 system's syslog daemon.
2250 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
2251 entropy currently being available to the system.
2252 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
2253 back values provided by the forked processes.
2254 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
2255 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
2257 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
2258 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
2259 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
2260 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
2261 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
2262 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
2263 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
2264 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
2265 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
2267 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
2268 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
2269 noise quality as percentage.
2271 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
2272 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
2274 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
2275 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
2276 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
2277 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
2278 were accounted as `zombies'.
2280 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
2281 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
2284 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
2285 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
2286 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
2288 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
2289 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
2290 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
2291 segfault with some libcs.
2293 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
2294 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
2295 under Solaris again.
2296 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
2298 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
2299 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
2301 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
2302 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
2303 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
2304 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
2305 write init.d-scripts for it.
2306 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
2307 caused problems every now and then.
2308 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
2309 filesystem types or devices.
2310 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
2311 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
2313 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
2314 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
2315 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
2316 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
2317 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
2318 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
2319 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
2320 segment size and pagefaults.
2321 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
2322 queries multimeters.
2323 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
2324 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
2325 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
2327 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
2328 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
2329 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
2330 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
2332 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
2333 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
2334 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
2335 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
2338 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
2339 * The sample config file has been improved.
2340 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
2341 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
2342 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
2343 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
2345 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
2346 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
2347 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
2349 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
2350 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
2352 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2353 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
2354 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
2355 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
2357 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
2358 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2359 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
2360 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
2361 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
2362 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
2363 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
2364 with a test environment :)
2365 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
2368 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
2369 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
2370 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
2372 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
2373 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
2374 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
2376 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
2377 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
2378 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
2380 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
2381 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
2383 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
2384 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2385 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2386 approximately 7.6 days.
2388 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
2389 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
2390 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
2391 approximately 7.6 days.
2393 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2394 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
2396 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
2398 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
2400 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
2401 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
2402 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
2403 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
2404 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
2406 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
2407 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
2408 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
2409 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
2410 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
2411 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
2412 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
2413 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
2415 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
2416 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
2417 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
2418 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
2420 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
2421 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
2422 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
2424 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
2425 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
2426 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
2428 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
2429 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
2430 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
2433 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
2434 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
2435 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
2437 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
2438 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
2439 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
2440 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
2442 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
2443 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
2444 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
2446 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
2447 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
2449 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2450 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
2452 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
2453 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
2455 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2456 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
2458 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
2459 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
2460 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
2461 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
2462 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
2463 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
2464 address and/or port than localhost.
2465 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
2466 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
2467 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
2468 be set in the configfile.
2470 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
2471 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
2472 client mode. This released fixes this.
2474 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
2475 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
2476 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
2479 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
2480 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
2482 * A `df' plugin has been added.
2483 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
2484 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
2485 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2487 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
2488 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
2489 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
2492 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
2493 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
2494 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
2496 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
2497 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
2498 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
2499 currently logged in users.
2500 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
2501 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
2502 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
2503 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
2505 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
2506 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
2507 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
2508 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
2509 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
2510 with the `-c' argument.
2511 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
2512 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
2513 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
2514 Barcellos for this patch.
2516 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
2517 * New modules have been added:
2518 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
2519 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
2520 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
2521 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2523 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
2524 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
2526 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
2527 between polls up to one day.
2528 * The init.d files have been improved.
2529 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2531 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
2532 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
2533 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
2535 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
2536 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
2537 multicast) has been added.
2538 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
2539 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
2540 to be linked against an external library.
2541 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
2542 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
2544 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
2545 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
2547 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
2548 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
2549 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
2550 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
2551 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
2552 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
2553 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2554 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
2555 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
2558 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
2559 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
2561 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2563 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
2564 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
2566 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
2567 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
2568 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
2569 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
2571 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
2572 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
2573 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2575 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
2576 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
2577 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
2578 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
2579 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
2580 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
2581 statistics will not work.
2583 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
2584 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
2585 weird strings as disk-names..
2587 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
2588 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
2589 about the disks and partitions.
2591 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
2592 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
2593 and/or kernel versions.
2595 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
2596 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
2597 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
2599 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
2600 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
2601 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
2603 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
2604 * Collecting CPU statistics now
2606 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
2607 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
2609 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2611 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
2612 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2614 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
2615 * The following modules are provided:
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