1 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
2 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
4 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
6 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
7 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
8 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
9 approximately 7.6 days.
11 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
12 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
13 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
14 approximately 7.6 days.
16 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
17 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
19 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
21 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
23 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
24 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
25 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
26 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
27 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
29 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
30 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
31 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
32 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `hearbeat'
33 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
34 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
35 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
36 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
38 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
39 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
40 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
41 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
43 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
44 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
45 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
47 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
48 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
49 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
51 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
52 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
53 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
56 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
57 * Fixes for building collectd unter FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
58 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
60 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
61 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
62 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
63 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
65 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
66 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
67 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thankt to Sebastian for
69 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
70 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
72 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
73 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
75 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
76 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
78 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
79 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
81 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
82 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
83 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
84 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
85 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
86 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
87 address and/or port than localhost.
88 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
89 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
90 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
91 be set in the configfile.
93 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
94 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
95 client mode. This released fixes this.
97 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
98 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
99 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
102 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
103 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
105 * A `df' plugin has been added.
106 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
107 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
108 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
110 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
111 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
112 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
115 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
116 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
117 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
119 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
120 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
121 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
122 currently logged in users.
123 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
124 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
125 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
126 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
128 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
129 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
130 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
131 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
132 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
133 with the `-c' argument.
134 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
135 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
136 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
137 Barcellos for this patch.
139 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
140 * New modules have been added:
141 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
142 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
143 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
144 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
146 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
147 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
149 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
150 between polls up to one day.
151 * The init.d files have been improved.
152 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
154 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
155 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
156 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
158 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
159 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
160 multicast) has been added.
161 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
162 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
163 to be linked against an external library.
164 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
165 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
167 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
168 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
170 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
171 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
172 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
173 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
174 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
175 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
176 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
177 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
178 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
181 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
182 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
184 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
186 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
187 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
189 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
190 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
191 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
192 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
194 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
195 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
196 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
198 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
199 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
200 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
201 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
202 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
203 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
204 statistics will not work.
206 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
207 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
208 weird strings as disk-names..
210 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
211 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
212 about the disks and partitions.
214 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
215 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
216 and/or kernel versions.
218 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
219 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
220 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
222 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
223 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
224 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
226 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
227 * Collecting CPU statistics now
229 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
230 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
232 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
234 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
235 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
237 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
238 * The following modules are provided: