1 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
2 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
4 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
6 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
7 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
8 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
9 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
10 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
11 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
12 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
13 with a test environment :)
14 * A plugin for moniroting an NTP instance and the local clock drift
17 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
18 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
19 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
21 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
22 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
23 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
25 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
26 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
27 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
29 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
30 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
32 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
33 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
34 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
35 approximately 7.6 days.
37 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
38 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
39 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
40 approximately 7.6 days.
42 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
43 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
45 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
47 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
49 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
50 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
51 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
52 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
53 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
55 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
56 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
57 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
58 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `hearbeat'
59 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
60 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
61 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
62 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
64 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
65 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
66 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
67 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
69 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
70 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
71 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
73 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
74 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
75 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
77 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
78 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
79 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
82 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
83 * Fixes for building collectd unter FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
84 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
86 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
87 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
88 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
89 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
91 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
92 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
93 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thankt to Sebastian for
95 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
96 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
98 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
99 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
101 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
102 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
104 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
105 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
107 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
108 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
109 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
110 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
111 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
112 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
113 address and/or port than localhost.
114 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
115 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
116 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
117 be set in the configfile.
119 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
120 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
121 client mode. This released fixes this.
123 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
124 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
125 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
128 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
129 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
131 * A `df' plugin has been added.
132 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
133 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
134 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
136 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
137 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
138 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
141 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
142 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
143 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
145 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
146 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
147 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
148 currently logged in users.
149 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
150 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
151 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
152 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
154 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
155 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
156 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
157 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
158 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
159 with the `-c' argument.
160 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
161 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
162 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
163 Barcellos for this patch.
165 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
166 * New modules have been added:
167 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
168 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
169 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
170 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
172 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
173 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
175 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
176 between polls up to one day.
177 * The init.d files have been improved.
178 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
180 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
181 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
182 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
184 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
185 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
186 multicast) has been added.
187 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
188 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
189 to be linked against an external library.
190 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
191 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
193 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
194 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
196 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
197 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
198 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
199 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
200 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
201 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
202 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
203 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
204 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
207 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
208 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
210 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
212 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
213 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
215 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
216 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
217 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
218 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
220 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
221 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
222 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
224 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
225 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
226 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
227 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
228 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
229 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
230 statistics will not work.
232 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
233 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
234 weird strings as disk-names..
236 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
237 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
238 about the disks and partitions.
240 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
241 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
242 and/or kernel versions.
244 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
245 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
246 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
248 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
249 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
250 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
252 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
253 * Collecting CPU statistics now
255 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
256 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
258 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
260 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
261 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
263 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
264 * The following modules are provided: