1 2017-01-23, Version 5.7.1
2 * collectd: Handling of boolean configuration options has been unified.
3 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
4 * collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to
6 * collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and
7 coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian
9 * Build system: Parallel build have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
11 * DPDKStat plugin: Portability issues and a double-close bug have been
12 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
13 * Intel RDT plugin: A check for the libpqos library version has been
14 added. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk.
15 * NetApp plugin: Compilation problems have been corrected. Thanks to
16 Florian Forster. #2120
17 * Write Prometheus plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
20 2016-12-12, Version 5.7.0
21 * Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks
23 * Documentation: The semantics of the "TypesDB" option have been
24 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
25 * collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been
26 added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749
27 * collectd: Threads now get named, making them easier to track using
28 tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada
29 and Marc Fournier. #547
30 * AMQP plugin, Write Graphite plugin, Write Kafka plugin: The new
31 "[Graphite]PreserveSeparator" option allows retaining the default dot
32 separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419
33 * Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been
34 added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795
35 * CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang.
37 * Collectd::Unixsock: Fractional seconds support has been made more
38 robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052
39 * DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics.
40 Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim
42 * gRPC plugin: The "DispatchValues" option has been renamed to
43 "PutValues". Thanks to Florian Forster.
44 * HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to
45 Benjamin Gilbert. #631
46 * Hugepages plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used and free
47 hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones
48 and Florian Forster. #1799
49 * Intel RDT plugin: This new plugin collects statistics exposed by
50 Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970
51 * memcached plugin: The new "Address" option allows connecting to a
52 different server than specified by the "Host" option. Thanks to Pavel
54 * nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added.
55 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609
56 * Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new
57 "RegisterLegacyFlush" option has been added. Thanks to Pavel
59 * PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time.
60 Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918
61 * Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made.
62 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981
63 * RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed
64 operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959
65 * SpamAssassin: The plugin can now run in Perl's "tainted mode" ("-T").
66 Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962
67 * Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching
68 values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
70 * Tail plugin: The new "GaugePersist" option has been added. Thanks to
71 Florian Forster. #2015
72 * Target:Set, Target:Replace, Match:RegEx: MetaData support has been
73 added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930
74 * turbostat plugin: The new "LogicalCoreNames" option allows switching
75 to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056
76 * virt plugin: The new "BlockDeviceFormat" and
77 "BlockDeviceFormatBasename" options help controlling the names
78 reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004
79 * Write Graphite plugin: A new "DropDuplicateFields" option has been
80 added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915
81 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" setting has been reintroduced.
82 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
83 * Write Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been
84 added, using the new "Format" configuration option. Thanks to Igor
86 * Write Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an
87 embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus'
88 collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967
90 2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2
91 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
92 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
93 * collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more
94 portable. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2009
95 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
97 * collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which
98 caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely. Thanks to Florian
100 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
101 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
103 * Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved. Thanks
105 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
106 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
107 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
109 * OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations. Thanks to
110 Pavel Rochnyack. #1932
111 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
112 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
113 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
114 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
115 * Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the
116 data set has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1996
117 * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed.
118 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
119 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
120 Thanks to Florian Forster.
121 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
123 * ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
126 2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
127 * Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
128 libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
130 * collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
131 segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
132 Florian Forster. #1954
133 * Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
135 * cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
136 JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
138 * PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
139 "query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
141 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
142 Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
143 * VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
144 fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
145 * Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
146 time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
147 * Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
148 being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
150 2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
151 * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
152 has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
153 * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
154 are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
155 * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
157 * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
158 fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
159 Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
160 * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
161 config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
162 * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
163 the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
164 * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
165 added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
166 * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
167 Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
168 * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
169 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
170 * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
171 to Corey Kosak. #1642
172 * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
173 has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
174 Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
175 * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
176 Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
177 * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
178 been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
179 * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
181 * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
182 Thanks to Florian Forster #617
183 * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
184 unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
185 permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
186 * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
187 server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
188 * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
189 sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
190 * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
192 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
193 various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
194 * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
195 Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
196 * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
197 Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
198 * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
199 to Florian Forster. #1813
200 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
201 have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
202 * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
203 and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
204 * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
205 receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
206 plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
208 * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
210 * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
211 skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
212 * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
213 added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
214 * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
215 Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
217 * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
218 Thanks to Brian ONeill.
219 * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
220 from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
221 Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
222 * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
223 SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
224 * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
226 * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
227 mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
228 Thanks to Marek Becka.
229 * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
230 Rachid Zarouali. #1849
231 * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
233 * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
234 types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
235 * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
236 Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
237 * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
238 a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
239 * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
240 nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
242 * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
243 made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
244 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
245 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
246 * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
247 payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
248 * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
249 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
250 * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
251 missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
252 * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
253 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
254 * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
255 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
256 * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
257 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
258 * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
259 Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
260 * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
262 * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
263 to Scott Talbert. #1770
264 * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
265 a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
266 * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
267 Vincent Bernat. #1397
268 * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
269 automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
270 * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
271 Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
272 * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
273 "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
274 * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
275 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
276 * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
277 Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
278 * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
279 Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
280 * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
281 Thanks to Florian Forster.
282 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
284 * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
285 headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
286 * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
287 reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
288 Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
289 * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
290 "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
292 * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
293 have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
294 * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
295 library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
296 Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
297 * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
298 plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
299 unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
300 * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
301 Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
302 * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
303 obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
305 * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
306 Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
308 2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
309 * collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
310 called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
311 * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
312 available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
313 * libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
314 environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
315 * collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
317 * Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
318 deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
320 * APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
321 reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
322 * Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
323 to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
324 Thanks to Florian Forster.
325 * DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
326 instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
327 * cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
328 unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
329 * DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
330 to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
331 * Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
333 * Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
335 * Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
336 has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
337 "abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
338 * Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
339 actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
340 Florian Forster. #1902
341 * Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
342 fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
344 * PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
345 have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
346 available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
347 * PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
348 correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
349 * Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
350 different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
351 * RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
352 been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
353 * Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
354 null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
355 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
356 Thanks to Florian Forster.
357 * Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
360 2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
361 * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
362 "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
363 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
364 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
365 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
366 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
367 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
368 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
369 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
370 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
371 * DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
373 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
374 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
376 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
377 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
378 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
379 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
380 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
381 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
382 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
383 ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
384 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
385 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
386 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
387 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
388 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
389 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
390 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
391 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
392 * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
393 fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
394 * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
395 corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
396 * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
397 Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
398 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
399 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
400 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
401 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
402 * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
403 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
404 * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
405 FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
407 2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
408 * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
409 defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
411 * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
412 work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
413 * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
414 tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
415 Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
416 * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
417 reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
418 Benjamin Drung;. #1323
419 * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
420 to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
421 * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
422 been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
423 * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
424 with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
425 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
426 * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
427 added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
428 * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
429 improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
430 * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
432 * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
433 against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
434 Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
435 * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
436 and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
437 * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
438 expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
439 callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
441 * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
443 * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
444 to Natanael Copa. #1147
445 * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
446 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
447 * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
448 to Marc Fournier. #1132
449 * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
450 Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
451 * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
452 fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
453 * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
454 Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
455 * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
457 * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
458 Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
459 * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
460 in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
462 * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
464 * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
465 tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
467 * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
468 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
469 * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
471 * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
473 * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
474 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
475 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
476 Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
477 * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
480 2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
481 * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
482 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
483 * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
484 ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
486 * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
487 fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
488 Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
489 * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
491 * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
493 * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
494 the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
495 Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
496 * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
497 and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
498 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
499 Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
500 * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
501 Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
502 * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
503 available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
504 * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
505 systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
506 Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
507 * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
509 * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
510 "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
511 * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
512 exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
513 Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
514 * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
515 "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
516 * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
517 made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
518 * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
519 network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
520 * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
521 Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
522 * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
523 Forster and Marc Fournier.
524 * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
525 API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
526 * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
527 license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
528 gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
529 PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
530 Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
531 plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
532 and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
533 most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
534 * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
535 * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
536 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
537 * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
538 Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
539 * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
540 allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
542 * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
543 been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
544 David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
545 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
546 plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
547 compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
548 * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
549 connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
550 "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
551 Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
552 * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
553 Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
554 libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
555 * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
556 encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
558 * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
559 Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
561 * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
562 batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
563 * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
564 been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
565 Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
566 * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
567 battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
568 * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
569 Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
570 * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
571 distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
572 McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
573 * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
574 as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
575 Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
576 * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
577 aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
578 Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
579 Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
580 * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
581 been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
582 * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
583 Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
584 * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
585 HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
586 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
587 implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
588 * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
589 added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
590 Mark Wong. #317, #321
591 * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
592 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
593 * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
594 in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
595 * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
596 metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
598 * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
599 Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
600 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
601 metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
602 * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
603 handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
604 * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
605 added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
607 * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
608 memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
609 * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
610 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
611 * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
612 Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
613 * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
614 as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
616 * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
617 longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
618 * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
619 to Matt Cottingham. #622
620 * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
621 added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
622 * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
623 Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
625 * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
626 possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
627 * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
628 port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
629 * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
630 platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
631 * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
632 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
634 * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
635 added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
636 #248, #621, #699, #824
637 * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
638 added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
639 * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
640 Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
641 * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
642 added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
643 * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
645 * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
646 has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
647 * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
648 has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
649 * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
650 OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
651 Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
652 * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
654 * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
655 report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
657 * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
658 internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
659 been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
660 * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
661 values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
663 * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
664 Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
665 * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
666 systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
667 * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
668 now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
669 added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
671 * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
672 from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
673 Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
674 #464, #475, #799, #1030
675 * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
676 in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
677 * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
678 added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
679 * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
680 Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
681 * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
682 drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
683 * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
684 which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
685 * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
686 implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
687 * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
689 * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
690 Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
691 * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
692 "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
694 * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
695 Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
696 * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
697 Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
698 * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
699 all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
700 * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
701 the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
702 * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
703 residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
704 Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
705 * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
706 to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
707 * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
708 monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
710 * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
711 Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
712 * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
713 UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
714 * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
716 * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
717 reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
718 Florian Forster. #625
719 * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
720 improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
721 "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
722 * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
723 added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
724 * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
725 reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
727 * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
728 can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
730 * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
731 distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
732 ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
733 * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
734 configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
735 * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
736 in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
737 * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
738 server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
739 * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
740 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
741 * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
742 to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
743 Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
744 * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
745 which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
746 * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
747 Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
748 * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
749 processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
750 Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
751 * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
752 time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
753 Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
754 * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
755 Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
756 * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
757 "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
759 2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
760 * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
762 * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
763 corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
764 * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
765 versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
766 * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
767 Sanmartín Rozada. #542
768 * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
769 Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
770 * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
771 to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
772 * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
773 Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
774 * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
775 fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
776 * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
777 build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
778 * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
780 * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
781 java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
782 * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
783 called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
784 * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
785 available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
786 * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
787 libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
788 * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
789 detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
790 * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
792 * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
793 precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
794 * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
795 Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
796 * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
797 plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
798 * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
799 file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
800 * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
801 in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
802 * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
803 Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
804 * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
805 added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
807 * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
808 Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
809 * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
810 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
811 * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
812 required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
813 Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
814 * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
815 Thanks to Sergey. #1329
816 * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
818 * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
820 * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
822 * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
823 more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
824 * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
825 such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
826 * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
827 Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
828 * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
829 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
830 * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
831 removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
832 * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
833 possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
834 * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
835 This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
837 * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
838 run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
840 * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
841 has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
842 * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
843 ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
844 * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
845 counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
846 * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
847 now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
848 Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
849 * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
850 the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
851 Florian Forster. #956
852 * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
853 been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
854 Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
855 * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
856 This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
857 Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
858 * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
859 Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
860 * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
861 Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
862 * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
863 the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
865 * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
866 no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
867 * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
868 single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
869 create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
870 * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
871 properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
872 * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
873 been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
874 * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
876 * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
877 also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
878 * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
879 added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
880 * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
881 platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
882 * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
883 Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
884 * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
886 * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
887 has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
888 * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
889 Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
890 * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
891 Pavel Rochnyack #1703
892 * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
894 * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
895 plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
896 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
897 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
899 * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
900 have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
901 * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
902 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
903 * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
904 recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
905 * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
906 negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
907 * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
908 "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
909 Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
910 * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
912 * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
913 OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
914 * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
915 different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
916 * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
917 added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
918 * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
919 report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
920 * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
921 server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
922 * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
923 shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
924 * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
925 adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
926 Florian Forster. #1070
927 * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
929 * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
930 "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
931 * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
932 fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
933 libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
934 Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
935 Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
937 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
938 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
939 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
940 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
942 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
943 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
944 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
946 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
948 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
949 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
950 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
951 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
952 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
953 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
954 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
955 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
956 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
957 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
958 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
959 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
960 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
962 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
963 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
964 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
965 * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
966 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
967 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
968 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
969 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
970 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
971 * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
972 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
974 * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
975 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
976 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
977 Florian Forster. #663
978 * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
979 prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
980 * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
981 Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
982 * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
983 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
984 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
985 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
986 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
987 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
989 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
990 Thanks to Florian Forster.
991 * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
992 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
993 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
994 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
995 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
996 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
997 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
999 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1001 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1002 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1003 * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1004 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1005 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1006 Ritschard. #610, #804
1007 * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
1009 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1010 to Florian Forster. #733
1011 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1012 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1013 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1015 * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
1016 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
1017 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1018 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1019 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1021 * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
1022 numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
1024 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1027 2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
1028 * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
1029 warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
1030 * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
1031 resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
1032 * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
1033 Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
1034 * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
1035 of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
1036 of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
1037 Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
1038 * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
1039 Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1040 * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
1041 sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1042 * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
1043 per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
1044 Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
1045 * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
1046 default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
1047 regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
1048 behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
1049 * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
1051 2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
1052 * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
1053 plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
1054 encountered, only the first will have any effect.
1055 * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
1056 plugins for which a configuration is found.
1057 * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
1058 allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
1059 of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
1060 * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1061 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
1063 * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
1064 speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
1065 control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
1066 * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
1067 to Jan Matějka for his patch.
1068 * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
1069 has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
1070 * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
1071 * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
1072 for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
1073 * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
1074 been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
1075 * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
1076 a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
1078 * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
1079 Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
1080 * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
1081 added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
1082 * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
1083 consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
1084 architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
1086 * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
1087 "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
1088 * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
1089 added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
1090 * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
1091 processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
1092 meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
1093 * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
1094 metrics in the StatsD format.
1095 * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
1096 Nick Stenning for his patch.
1097 * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
1098 Javier Maestro for his patch.
1099 * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
1100 * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
1103 2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
1104 * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
1105 KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
1106 Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
1108 * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
1109 function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
1110 * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
1111 Fournier and @NsLib.
1112 * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
1114 * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
1115 "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
1116 * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
1117 failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1118 * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
1119 Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
1120 * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
1121 Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
1122 * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
1123 targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1124 * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
1125 been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
1126 * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
1128 * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
1130 * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
1131 "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
1132 Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1133 * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
1134 has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
1135 * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
1136 Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
1137 * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
1138 ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
1139 * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
1140 "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
1142 * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
1143 minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
1144 of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
1145 Florian Forster. #663
1146 * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
1147 restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
1148 * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
1149 "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
1150 * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
1151 representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
1153 * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
1154 fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
1155 * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
1156 Thanks to Florian Forster.
1157 * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
1158 misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
1159 * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
1161 * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
1162 Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
1163 * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
1164 improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
1165 * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
1167 * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
1169 * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
1170 double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
1171 * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
1173 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
1174 this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
1175 * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
1176 has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
1177 * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
1178 Ritschard. #610, #804
1179 * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
1180 to Florian Forster. #733
1181 * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
1182 added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
1183 * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
1185 * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
1186 to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
1187 * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
1189 * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
1192 2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
1193 * Documentation: Various fixes.
1194 * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
1195 ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
1196 * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
1197 * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
1198 segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
1199 Fabien Wernli for their patches.
1200 * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
1201 thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
1202 * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
1203 The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
1204 * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
1205 has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
1206 * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
1207 Cottlehuber for reporting it.
1209 2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
1210 * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
1211 only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1213 * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
1214 improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
1215 as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
1216 reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
1217 * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
1218 regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
1219 can now be set via the configuration file.
1220 * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
1221 * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
1222 has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1223 * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
1224 to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
1225 * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
1226 "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
1227 * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
1228 Greg Mason for his patch.
1229 * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
1230 to Johan Wirén for his patch.
1231 * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
1232 compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
1233 patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
1234 * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
1235 to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1236 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
1237 implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
1238 asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
1239 Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
1240 * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
1241 files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
1243 * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
1244 * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
1245 Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
1246 Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
1248 2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
1249 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1250 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1251 Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
1252 to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
1253 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1254 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1255 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1256 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1257 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1258 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1259 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1260 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1261 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1262 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1263 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1264 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1265 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1266 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1267 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1268 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1269 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1270 * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1271 * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
1272 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1273 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1274 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1275 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1276 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1277 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1278 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1281 2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
1282 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
1283 and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
1284 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1285 more frequently than intended.
1286 * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
1287 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1288 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1289 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1290 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1291 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1292 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1293 * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
1294 A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
1295 configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
1297 * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1298 Ritschard for his patch.
1299 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1300 * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
1301 "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
1302 fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
1303 has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1304 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1305 the logging problem.
1306 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1307 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1309 2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
1310 * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
1311 Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
1312 * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
1313 per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
1315 * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
1316 looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
1317 plugin, for example.
1318 * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
1319 in the binary format has been added.
1320 * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
1321 value lists into one.
1322 * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
1323 output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
1324 * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
1325 Thomas Meson for the patch.
1326 * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
1327 Manuel Rozada for his patch.
1328 * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
1330 * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
1332 * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
1333 to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
1334 * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
1335 Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
1336 * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
1337 behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
1338 Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
1339 * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
1340 * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
1341 packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
1343 * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
1344 Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
1345 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
1346 * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
1347 Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
1348 * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
1349 Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
1350 * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
1351 "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
1352 * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
1353 version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
1354 "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
1355 * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
1356 for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
1358 2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
1359 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1360 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1361 * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
1362 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1363 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1364 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1365 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1366 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1367 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1368 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1369 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1370 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1371 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1372 * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
1373 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1374 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1375 * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
1376 * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
1377 to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
1378 * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
1379 * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
1380 "jkrabbe" for the patch.
1381 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1382 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1383 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1384 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1387 2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
1388 * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
1389 Mettier for his patches.
1390 * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
1391 more frequently than intended.
1392 * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1393 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1394 * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
1395 character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
1396 * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
1397 Ed Schouten for his patch.
1398 * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
1399 * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
1400 log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
1402 * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
1403 Mettier for reporting this bug.
1405 2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
1406 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1407 unwanted permission bits.
1408 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1409 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1410 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1411 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1412 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1413 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1414 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1415 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1416 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1418 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1419 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1420 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1421 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1422 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1423 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1424 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1425 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1426 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1427 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1428 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1429 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1431 * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
1432 uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
1433 reporting these problems.
1434 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1435 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1436 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1437 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1438 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1440 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1441 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1442 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1443 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1444 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1445 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1446 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1447 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1449 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1450 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1451 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1452 "biancalana" for the fix.
1453 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1454 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1455 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1456 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1457 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1459 * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
1460 fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
1461 * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
1462 later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
1464 2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
1465 * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
1467 * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
1468 "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
1469 * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
1470 the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
1471 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
1472 added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
1473 * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
1474 directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
1475 * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
1476 addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
1477 Ritschard for his patch.
1478 * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
1479 ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
1481 * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
1482 states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
1484 * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
1486 * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
1487 Ioiart for his patch.
1488 * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
1489 Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
1490 * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
1491 Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
1492 * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
1494 * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
1495 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
1496 * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
1497 * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
1498 Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1499 * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1500 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1501 * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
1502 Aaron Brady for his patch.
1503 * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
1504 Jérôme Renard for his patches.
1505 * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
1506 lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
1507 and Chris Lundquist for their work.
1508 * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
1509 lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
1510 database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
1512 * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
1513 Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
1514 * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
1515 added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1517 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
1518 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1519 unwanted permission bits.
1520 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1521 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1522 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1523 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1524 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1525 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1526 * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
1527 Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
1528 * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
1530 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1531 * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
1532 Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
1533 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1534 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1535 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1536 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1537 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1538 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1539 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1540 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1541 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1543 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1544 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1545 * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
1546 to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1547 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1549 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1550 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1551 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1552 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1553 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1554 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1555 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1556 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1558 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1559 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1560 * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
1561 "biancalana" for the fix.
1562 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1563 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1564 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1565 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1566 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1569 2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
1570 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1571 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1572 plugin under Gentoo.
1573 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1574 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1576 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1577 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1578 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1579 Opter for his patch.
1580 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1581 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1583 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1584 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1586 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1587 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1589 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1590 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1592 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1593 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1594 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1595 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1596 runtime has been fixed.
1598 2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
1599 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1600 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1601 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1603 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1604 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1605 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1606 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1607 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1608 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1609 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1611 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1613 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1614 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1615 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1616 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1617 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1619 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
1620 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1621 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1622 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1623 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1625 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1626 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1627 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1628 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1630 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1631 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1632 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1633 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1634 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1635 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1636 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1637 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1638 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1639 for fixing this bug!
1641 2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
1642 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1643 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1644 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1645 to Peter Green for his patch.
1646 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1647 McCabe for the patch.
1648 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1649 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1650 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1651 code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
1652 * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
1653 Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
1654 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1655 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1656 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1657 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1658 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1659 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1660 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1661 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1662 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1663 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1664 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1665 * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
1666 were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
1667 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1668 Flisher for the fix.
1670 2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
1671 * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
1672 * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
1673 allow a higher accuracy than one second.
1674 * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
1675 to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
1676 Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
1677 * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
1679 * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
1680 compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
1681 stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
1682 * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
1683 added to the collectd client library.
1684 * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
1685 one data source has been changed to "value".
1686 * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
1687 "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
1688 plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
1689 course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
1690 maximum value is unspecified.
1691 * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
1692 from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
1693 * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1694 Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
1695 Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
1696 * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
1697 Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
1698 * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
1699 the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
1700 * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
1702 * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1703 * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
1704 "Connection" blocks.
1705 * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
1707 * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
1709 * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
1710 to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
1711 * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
1712 technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
1714 * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
1715 license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
1716 * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
1717 data sets used have been improved.
1718 * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
1720 * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1721 * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
1722 * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
1723 value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
1724 * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
1725 statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
1726 memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
1727 * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
1728 this separate plugin.
1729 * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
1730 * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
1731 Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
1732 Fournier for their contributions.
1733 * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
1735 * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
1737 * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
1740 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
1741 * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
1742 libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
1743 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
1744 write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
1745 redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
1746 have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
1747 Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
1748 * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
1749 caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
1750 to Nathan Huff for the patch.
1751 * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
1752 been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
1753 * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
1754 Tomas Doran for his patch.
1755 * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
1756 been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
1757 * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
1758 "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
1761 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
1762 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
1763 unwanted permission bits.
1764 * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
1765 * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
1766 for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
1767 under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
1768 * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
1769 have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
1770 * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
1771 * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
1772 reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
1773 * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
1774 "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
1775 by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
1776 seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
1777 Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
1778 * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
1779 define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
1781 * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
1782 Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
1783 * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
1785 * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
1786 changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
1787 "KIvosak" for the patch.
1788 * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
1789 Chris Lundquist for his patch.
1790 * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
1791 * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
1792 ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
1794 * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
1795 and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
1796 * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
1797 warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
1798 * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
1799 added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
1800 added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
1803 2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
1804 * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
1805 for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
1806 plugin under Gentoo.
1807 * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
1808 been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
1810 * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
1811 * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
1812 * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
1813 Opter for his patch.
1814 * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
1815 truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
1817 * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
1818 was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
1820 * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
1821 added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
1823 * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
1824 write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
1826 * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
1827 been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
1828 then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
1829 * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
1830 runtime has been fixed.
1832 2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
1833 * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
1834 plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
1835 version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
1837 * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
1838 DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
1839 Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
1840 * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
1841 handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
1842 * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
1843 "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
1845 * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
1847 * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
1848 fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
1849 * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
1850 interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
1851 as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
1853 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5
1854 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
1855 follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
1856 * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
1857 occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
1859 * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
1860 pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
1861 to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
1862 high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
1864 * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
1865 to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
1866 * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
1867 and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
1868 as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
1869 have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
1870 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
1871 * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
1872 * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1873 for fixing this bug!
1875 2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4
1876 * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
1877 to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
1878 * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
1879 to Peter Green for his patch.
1880 * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
1881 McCabe for the patch.
1882 * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
1883 instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
1884 added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
1886 * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
1887 * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
1888 assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
1889 true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
1890 * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
1891 added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
1892 * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
1893 spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
1894 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
1895 Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
1896 to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
1897 * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
1898 Flisher for the fix.
1900 2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3
1901 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
1902 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
1904 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
1905 percentage calculation has been fixed.
1906 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
1908 * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed.
1909 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
1910 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
1911 * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored.
1912 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
1913 error handling case.
1914 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
1915 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
1918 2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2
1919 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
1920 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
1921 the rest of the configuration if possible.
1922 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
1923 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
1924 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
1925 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
1926 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
1927 * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the
1928 configurable timeout value.
1929 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
1930 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
1931 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
1932 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
1933 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
1934 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
1935 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
1937 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
1938 to prevent spamming the logs.
1939 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
1940 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
1941 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
1942 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
1944 * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been
1946 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
1947 Trenkel for the patch.
1949 2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
1950 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
1951 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
1952 Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
1953 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
1955 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
1956 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
1957 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
1959 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
1960 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
1961 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
1962 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
1963 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
1964 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
1965 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
1966 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
1967 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
1968 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
1970 2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
1971 * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
1972 fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
1973 the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
1974 * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
1975 "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
1976 code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
1978 * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
1980 * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
1981 lines from the match.
1982 * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
1983 and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
1985 * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
1986 "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
1987 Malek for the patch.
1988 * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
1989 severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
1991 * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
1992 certain lines from the match.
1993 * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
1994 Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
1995 * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
1996 interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
1997 traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
1998 * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
1999 options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
2000 multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
2001 * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
2002 Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
2003 webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
2004 * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
2005 address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
2006 to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
2007 * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
2008 plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
2009 Sebastian Harl for his work.
2010 * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
2011 has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
2012 * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
2013 Sven Trenkel for his work.
2014 * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
2015 and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
2016 MikroTik devices has been added.
2017 * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
2018 Scraba for his patch.
2019 * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
2020 lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
2021 * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
2022 Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
2023 * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
2024 Ammous for his patch.
2026 2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5
2027 * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
2028 * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to
2030 * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the
2031 percentage calculation has been fixed.
2032 * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have
2034 * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been
2035 fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem.
2036 * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an
2037 error handling case.
2038 * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to
2039 collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this
2042 2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4
2043 * Documentation: Various documentation fixes.
2044 * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with
2045 the rest of the configuration if possible.
2046 * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases
2047 read functions may not have been called as often as requested.
2048 * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been
2049 fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX.
2050 Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch.
2051 * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data
2052 sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to
2053 Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2054 * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading
2055 JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed.
2056 * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function.
2057 Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
2059 * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order
2060 to prevent spamming the logs.
2061 * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed.
2062 * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that
2063 it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch.
2064 * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating
2066 * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven
2067 Trenkel for the patch.
2069 2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
2070 * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
2071 * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
2072 Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
2073 * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
2075 * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
2076 * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
2077 removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
2078 * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
2080 * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
2081 struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
2082 * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
2083 have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
2084 configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
2085 * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
2086 Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
2087 * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
2088 increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
2089 fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
2090 * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
2091 have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
2093 2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
2094 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2095 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2096 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2097 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2098 figuring out a way to make this work.
2099 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2100 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2101 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2102 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2103 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2105 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2107 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2108 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2109 * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
2110 Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
2111 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2112 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2113 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2114 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2116 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2117 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2118 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2119 an unknown data source type.
2120 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2121 packets has been fixed.
2122 * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
2124 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2125 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2126 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2127 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2128 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2129 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2131 2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1
2132 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2133 * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
2134 * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
2135 VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
2136 * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
2137 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2138 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2139 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2141 * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
2142 * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
2143 * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
2146 2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
2147 * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
2148 number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
2149 Weiskircher for the patch.
2150 * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
2151 been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2152 * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
2153 to Aman Gupta for the patch.
2154 * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
2155 added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
2156 * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
2157 “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
2158 * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
2159 mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
2160 * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
2161 Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
2162 * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
2164 * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
2165 Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2166 * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
2167 has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
2168 * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
2169 have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2170 * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
2171 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2172 * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
2173 into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
2174 language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
2175 * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
2176 wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
2177 * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
2178 interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
2179 Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2180 * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
2181 storage has been added.
2182 * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
2183 value has been added.
2185 2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
2186 * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
2187 * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
2188 an unknown data source type.
2190 2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
2191 * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
2192 added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
2193 * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
2194 been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
2195 figuring out a way to make this work.
2196 * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
2197 Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
2198 * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
2199 the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
2201 * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
2203 * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
2204 been fixed for Apache 2.*.
2205 * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
2206 is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
2207 * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
2208 warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
2210 * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
2211 Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
2212 * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
2213 packets has been fixed.
2214 * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
2215 this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
2216 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
2217 fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
2218 * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
2219 be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2221 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2222 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
2223 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
2224 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
2225 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
2228 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
2229 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2230 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2231 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2232 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2233 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2235 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
2236 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
2237 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2238 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2239 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2240 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2242 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2243 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2244 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2245 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2247 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
2248 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2250 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2251 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2252 issues on some platforms.
2253 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2254 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2255 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2256 descriptor handling.
2258 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
2259 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
2260 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
2261 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
2262 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
2263 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
2265 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
2266 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
2267 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
2268 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2269 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
2270 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
2271 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2272 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
2273 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2274 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
2275 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
2277 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
2278 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
2279 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
2280 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
2281 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
2282 Aman Gupta for the patch.
2283 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
2284 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
2285 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
2286 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
2287 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
2289 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
2290 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
2292 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
2293 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
2294 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2295 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
2296 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
2297 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
2298 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
2299 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
2300 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
2301 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
2302 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
2303 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
2304 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
2305 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
2307 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
2308 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
2309 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
2310 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
2311 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
2312 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
2314 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
2315 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
2316 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
2317 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
2319 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
2320 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
2321 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
2322 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
2324 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
2325 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
2327 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
2328 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
2329 issues on some platforms.
2330 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
2331 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
2332 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
2333 descriptor handling.
2335 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
2336 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
2337 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
2338 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2339 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2340 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2342 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
2343 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2344 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2345 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2346 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2347 Hess for reporting this bug.
2348 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2349 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2350 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2351 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2352 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
2353 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
2354 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
2355 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
2356 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2357 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2358 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
2359 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
2360 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
2361 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
2362 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2363 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2364 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2367 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
2368 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
2370 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2371 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2372 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2373 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2374 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2375 for reporting the bug.
2376 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
2378 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
2379 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
2380 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
2381 libtool 2.2 has been added.
2382 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2383 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2384 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2385 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2386 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2388 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
2389 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
2390 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
2391 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
2392 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
2394 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2395 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2397 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
2398 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
2399 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2400 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
2401 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
2402 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
2403 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2404 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
2405 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
2406 Konetzko for the patch.
2407 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
2408 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
2409 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
2410 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
2411 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
2412 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
2413 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
2414 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
2415 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
2416 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
2417 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
2418 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
2419 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2420 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
2421 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
2422 Quiédeville for the patch.
2423 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
2425 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
2426 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
2427 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
2428 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
2429 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
2430 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
2431 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
2432 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
2434 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
2435 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
2436 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
2437 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
2438 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
2439 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
2441 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
2442 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
2443 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
2444 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
2446 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
2447 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
2448 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
2449 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
2450 Hess for reporting this bug.
2451 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
2452 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
2453 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
2454 is linked with the shipped library, too.
2455 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
2456 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
2457 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
2458 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
2459 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2462 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
2463 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
2464 Díaz for fixing this bug.
2465 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
2466 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
2467 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
2468 for reporting the bug.
2470 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
2471 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2472 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2473 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2474 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2475 providing an OpenBSD system.
2476 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
2477 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
2478 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
2479 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
2480 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
2482 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2484 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2485 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2486 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2487 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2488 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2490 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2491 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
2492 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2494 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
2495 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
2496 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
2497 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
2499 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
2500 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
2501 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
2502 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
2503 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
2504 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
2505 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
2506 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
2507 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
2508 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
2509 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2510 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2511 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2513 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
2514 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
2515 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2516 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
2517 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
2518 for finding and fixing most of them.
2519 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2520 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2522 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
2523 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
2524 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
2525 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
2526 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2527 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
2528 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
2529 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
2530 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
2531 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
2532 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
2534 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
2535 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
2536 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
2537 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
2539 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
2540 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
2541 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
2542 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
2543 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
2544 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
2545 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
2546 Kuhnle for the patch.
2547 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
2548 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
2549 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
2550 MacEachern for the patch.
2551 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
2552 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
2553 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
2554 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
2555 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
2556 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
2557 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
2558 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
2559 select interfaces, too.
2560 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
2561 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
2562 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
2564 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
2565 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
2566 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
2567 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
2568 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
2569 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
2570 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
2571 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
2572 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
2573 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
2575 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
2576 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
2577 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
2578 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
2579 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
2580 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
2581 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
2582 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
2584 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
2585 been added. Portability fixes.
2586 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
2587 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
2588 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
2590 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
2593 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
2594 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
2595 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
2596 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
2597 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
2598 providing an OpenBSD system.
2599 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
2600 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
2602 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
2603 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
2604 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
2605 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
2606 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
2607 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
2609 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
2610 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
2611 initialized, the daemon may crash.
2612 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
2614 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
2615 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
2617 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
2618 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
2619 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
2621 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
2622 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
2623 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
2624 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
2626 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
2627 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2628 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2629 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2631 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2632 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2633 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
2634 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
2635 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
2636 provide these necessary functions.
2637 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2638 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
2640 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
2641 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2642 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2643 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
2645 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2646 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2647 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2648 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2649 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2650 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2652 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
2653 invalid configuration options.
2654 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2655 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2656 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2658 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
2659 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2660 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2661 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2663 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2664 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2665 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2666 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2667 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2668 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2669 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2670 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2672 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2673 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2674 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
2675 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
2676 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2677 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2678 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2679 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
2680 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
2681 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
2682 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
2683 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
2685 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2686 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2689 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
2690 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
2691 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
2693 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
2694 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
2695 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
2696 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
2697 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
2698 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
2700 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
2701 email, using the `esmtp' library.
2702 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
2703 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
2705 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
2706 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
2707 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
2708 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
2710 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
2711 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
2712 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
2713 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
2714 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
2716 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
2717 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
2718 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
2720 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
2721 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
2722 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
2723 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
2725 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
2726 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
2727 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
2728 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
2729 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
2730 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
2731 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
2732 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
2733 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
2734 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
2735 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
2736 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
2738 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
2739 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
2740 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
2742 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
2743 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
2744 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
2745 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
2747 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
2748 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
2749 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
2750 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
2751 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
2752 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
2753 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
2754 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
2756 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
2757 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
2758 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
2759 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
2760 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
2761 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
2762 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
2765 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
2766 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
2767 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2769 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2770 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
2772 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
2773 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
2774 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
2775 architecture collectd is being built on.
2776 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
2778 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
2780 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
2781 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
2782 values under Solaris.
2783 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
2784 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
2786 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
2787 returned by some broken drivers.
2789 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
2790 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
2791 to kyrone for reporting this.
2792 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
2794 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
2796 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
2797 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
2798 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
2799 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
2801 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
2802 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
2803 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
2804 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
2805 flush its values to disk.
2806 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
2807 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
2808 for each data source.
2809 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
2811 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
2812 page of an Ascent server.
2813 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2814 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
2815 specific disks has been added.
2816 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2817 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
2818 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
2820 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
2821 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
2822 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
2823 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
2824 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
2825 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
2826 configuration has been decreased.
2827 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
2828 continuously reading from log files.
2829 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
2830 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
2831 and number of channels.
2832 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
2833 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
2834 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
2836 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
2837 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
2839 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
2841 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
2842 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
2843 again has been applied.
2844 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
2846 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
2847 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
2849 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2850 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
2851 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
2854 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
2855 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2856 they are in non-standard paths.
2857 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2858 if the libc expects it.
2859 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2860 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2862 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2863 using a buffer of static size.
2864 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2866 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2867 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2869 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2870 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
2871 `Persist' threshold options.
2872 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
2873 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2874 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2875 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2876 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2878 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
2879 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2881 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2882 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2883 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2884 cross-platform compatibility.
2885 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2886 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2887 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2889 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
2890 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
2891 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
2892 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
2893 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
2894 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
2896 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
2897 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
2898 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
2899 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
2900 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
2901 wants to add custom type definitions.
2902 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
2903 entire directories and shell wildcards.
2904 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
2905 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
2906 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
2907 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
2908 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
2909 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
2910 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
2911 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
2912 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
2913 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
2914 domain name lookups in this plugin.
2915 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
2916 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
2917 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
2918 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
2919 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
2920 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
2921 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
2922 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
2923 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
2924 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
2925 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
2926 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
2927 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
2928 Technology group for this plugin.
2930 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
2931 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
2932 they are in non-standard paths.
2933 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
2934 if the libc expects it.
2935 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2936 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
2938 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
2939 using a buffer of static size.
2940 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
2942 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
2943 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
2945 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
2946 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
2947 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
2948 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
2949 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
2951 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
2952 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
2953 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
2955 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
2956 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
2957 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
2958 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
2959 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
2960 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
2961 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
2962 cross-platform compatibility.
2963 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
2964 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
2965 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
2966 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
2968 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
2969 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
2970 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
2971 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
2972 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
2974 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
2975 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
2976 of the libsensors library.
2978 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
2979 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
2980 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
2982 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
2983 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
2986 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
2987 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
2988 enabled on the host.
2989 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
2991 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
2992 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
2993 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
2994 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
2995 definitions separate from the host definitions.
2996 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
2997 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
2998 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
2999 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
3000 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
3001 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
3002 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
3003 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
3004 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
3005 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
3006 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3007 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3008 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
3009 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
3010 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
3011 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
3012 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
3013 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
3014 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
3015 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
3016 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
3018 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
3019 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
3020 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
3021 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
3022 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
3024 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
3025 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
3027 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
3028 of the libsensors library.
3030 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
3031 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
3032 it's in a non-standard location.
3033 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
3034 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
3035 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
3036 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
3037 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
3038 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
3040 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
3041 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
3043 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
3044 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
3046 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
3047 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3048 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3049 noise quality as percentage.
3050 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3051 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
3052 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
3053 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
3054 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
3055 support for the `timeticks' type.
3057 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
3058 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
3059 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
3060 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
3062 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3063 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3064 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3066 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3067 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3068 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3069 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3071 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
3072 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
3073 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
3074 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
3076 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
3077 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
3078 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
3079 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
3080 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
3081 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
3082 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
3083 to not block data collection.
3084 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
3085 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
3086 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
3088 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
3089 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
3090 of music played with xmms.
3092 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
3093 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
3094 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3095 noise quality as percentage.
3096 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
3098 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
3099 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
3100 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
3101 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
3103 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
3104 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
3105 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
3106 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
3108 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
3109 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
3111 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
3112 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
3113 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
3114 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
3115 (i. e. without quotes).
3116 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
3117 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
3118 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3120 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
3121 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
3122 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
3123 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
3125 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
3126 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
3127 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
3130 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
3131 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
3133 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
3134 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3135 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
3136 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3137 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
3138 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
3139 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
3141 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
3142 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
3143 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
3144 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
3145 initialized correctly.
3146 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
3148 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
3149 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
3150 they're given in numerically form.
3152 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
3153 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
3154 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
3157 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
3158 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
3159 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
3160 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
3161 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
3162 thread-safe functions from now on.
3163 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
3164 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
3165 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
3167 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
3168 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
3169 write to increase IO-performance.
3170 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
3171 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
3172 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
3173 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
3174 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
3176 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
3177 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
3178 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
3180 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
3181 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
3182 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
3183 or STDOUT or STDERR.
3184 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
3185 system's syslog daemon.
3186 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
3187 entropy currently being available to the system.
3188 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
3189 back values provided by the forked processes.
3190 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
3191 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
3193 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
3194 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
3195 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
3196 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
3197 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
3198 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
3199 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
3200 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
3201 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
3203 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
3204 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
3205 noise quality as percentage.
3207 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
3208 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
3210 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
3211 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
3212 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
3213 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
3214 were accounted as `zombies'.
3216 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
3217 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
3220 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
3221 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
3222 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
3224 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
3225 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
3226 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
3227 segfault with some libcs.
3229 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
3230 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
3231 under Solaris again.
3232 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
3234 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
3235 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
3237 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
3238 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3239 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
3240 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
3241 write init.d-scripts for it.
3242 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
3243 caused problems every now and then.
3244 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
3245 filesystem types or devices.
3246 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
3247 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
3249 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
3250 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
3251 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
3252 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
3253 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
3254 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
3255 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
3256 segment size and pagefaults.
3257 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
3258 queries multimeters.
3259 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
3260 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
3261 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
3263 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
3264 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
3265 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
3266 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
3268 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
3269 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
3270 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
3271 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
3274 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
3275 * The sample config file has been improved.
3276 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
3277 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
3278 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
3279 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
3281 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
3282 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
3283 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
3285 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
3286 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
3288 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
3289 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
3290 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
3291 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
3293 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
3294 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
3295 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
3296 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
3297 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
3298 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
3299 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
3300 with a test environment :)
3301 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
3304 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
3305 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3306 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
3308 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
3309 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
3310 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
3312 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
3313 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
3314 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
3316 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
3317 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
3319 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
3320 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3321 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3322 approximately 7.6 days.
3324 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
3325 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
3326 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
3327 approximately 7.6 days.
3329 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
3330 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
3332 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
3334 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
3336 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
3337 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
3338 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
3339 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
3340 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
3342 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
3343 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
3344 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
3345 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
3346 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
3347 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
3348 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
3349 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
3351 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
3352 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
3353 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
3354 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
3356 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
3357 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
3358 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
3360 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
3361 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
3362 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
3364 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
3365 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
3366 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
3369 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
3370 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
3371 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
3373 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
3374 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
3375 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
3376 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
3378 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
3379 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
3380 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
3382 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
3383 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
3385 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
3386 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
3388 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
3389 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
3391 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
3392 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
3394 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
3395 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
3396 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
3397 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
3398 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
3399 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
3400 address and/or port than localhost.
3401 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
3402 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
3403 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
3404 be set in the configfile.
3406 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
3407 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
3408 client mode. This released fixes this.
3410 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
3411 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
3412 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
3415 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
3416 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
3418 * A `df' plugin has been added.
3419 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
3420 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
3421 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
3423 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
3424 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
3425 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
3428 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
3429 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
3430 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
3432 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
3433 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
3434 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
3435 currently logged in users.
3436 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
3437 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
3438 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
3439 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
3441 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
3442 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
3443 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
3444 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
3445 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
3446 with the `-c' argument.
3447 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
3448 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
3449 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
3450 Barcellos for this patch.
3452 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
3453 * New modules have been added:
3454 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
3455 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
3456 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
3457 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
3459 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
3460 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
3462 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
3463 between polls up to one day.
3464 * The init.d files have been improved.
3465 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
3467 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
3468 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
3469 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
3471 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
3472 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
3473 multicast) has been added.
3474 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
3475 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
3476 to be linked against an external library.
3477 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
3478 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
3480 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
3481 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
3483 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
3484 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
3485 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
3486 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
3487 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
3488 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
3489 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
3490 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
3491 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
3494 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
3495 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
3497 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
3499 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
3500 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
3502 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
3503 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
3504 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
3505 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
3507 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
3508 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
3509 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3511 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
3512 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
3513 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
3514 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
3515 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
3516 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
3517 statistics will not work.
3519 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
3520 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
3521 weird strings as disk-names..
3523 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
3524 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
3525 about the disks and partitions.
3527 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
3528 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
3529 and/or kernel versions.
3531 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
3532 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
3533 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
3535 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
3536 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
3537 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
3539 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
3540 * Collecting CPU statistics now
3542 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
3543 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
3545 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
3547 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
3548 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
3550 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
3551 * The following modules are provided:
projects / collectd.git / blob