1 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
2 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
4 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
5 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
7 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
8 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
10 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
11 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
12 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
13 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
14 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
15 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
16 address and/or port than localhost.
17 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
18 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
19 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
20 be set in the configfile.
22 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
23 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
24 client mode. This released fixes this.
26 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
27 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
28 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
31 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
32 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
34 * A `df' plugin has been added.
35 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
36 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
37 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
39 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
40 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
41 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
44 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
45 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
46 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
48 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
49 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
50 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
51 currently logged in users.
52 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
53 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
54 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
55 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
57 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
58 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
59 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
60 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
61 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
62 with the `-c' argument.
63 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
64 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
65 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
66 Barcellos for this patch.
68 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
69 * New modules have been added:
70 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
71 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
72 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
73 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
75 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
76 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
78 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
79 between polls up to one day.
80 * The init.d files have been improved.
81 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
83 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
84 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
85 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
87 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
88 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
89 multicast) has been added.
90 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
91 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
92 to be linked against an external library.
93 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
94 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
96 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
97 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
99 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
100 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
101 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
102 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
103 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
104 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
105 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
106 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
107 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
110 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
111 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
113 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
115 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
116 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
118 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
119 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
120 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
121 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
123 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
124 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
125 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
127 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
128 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
129 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
130 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
131 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
132 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
133 statistics will not work.
135 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
136 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
137 weird strings as disk-names..
139 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
140 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
141 about the disks and partitions.
143 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
144 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
145 and/or kernel versions.
147 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
148 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
149 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
151 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
152 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
153 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
155 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
156 * Collecting CPU statistics now
158 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
159 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
161 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
163 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
164 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
166 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
167 * The following modules are provided: