1 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
2 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
4 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
5 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
6 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
7 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
8 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
9 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
10 address and/or port than localhost.
11 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
12 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
13 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
14 be set in the configfile.
16 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
17 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
18 client mode. This released fixes this.
20 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
21 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
22 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
25 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
26 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
28 * A `df' plugin has been added.
29 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
30 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
31 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
33 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
34 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
35 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
38 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
39 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
40 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
42 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
43 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
44 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
45 currently logged in users.
46 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
47 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
48 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
49 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
51 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
52 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
53 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
54 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
55 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
56 with the `-c' argument.
57 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
58 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
59 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
60 Barcellos for this patch.
62 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
63 * New modules have been added:
64 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
65 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
66 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
67 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
69 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
70 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
72 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
73 between polls up to one day.
74 * The init.d files have been improved.
75 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
77 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
78 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
79 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
81 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
82 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
83 multicast) has been added.
84 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
85 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
86 to be linked against an external library.
87 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
88 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
90 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
91 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
93 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
94 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
95 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
96 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
97 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
98 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
99 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
100 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
101 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
104 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
105 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
107 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
109 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
110 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
112 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
113 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
114 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
115 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
117 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
118 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
119 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
121 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
122 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
123 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
124 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
125 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
126 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
127 statistics will not work.
129 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
130 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
131 weird strings as disk-names..
133 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
134 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
135 about the disks and partitions.
137 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
138 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
139 and/or kernel versions.
141 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
142 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
143 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
145 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
146 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
147 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
149 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
150 * Collecting CPU statistics now
152 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
153 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
155 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
157 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
158 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
160 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
161 * The following modules are provided: