1 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
2 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
4 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
6 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
8 2006-04-15, Version 3.9.0
9 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
10 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
11 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
12 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
14 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
15 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
16 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
17 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `hearbeat'
18 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
19 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
20 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
21 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
23 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
24 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
25 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
26 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
28 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
29 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
30 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
32 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
33 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
34 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
36 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
37 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
38 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
41 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
42 * Fixes for building collectd unter FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
43 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
45 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
46 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
47 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
48 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
50 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
51 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
52 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thankt to Sebastian for
54 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
55 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
57 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
58 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
60 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
61 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
63 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
64 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
66 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
67 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
68 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
69 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
70 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
71 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
72 address and/or port than localhost.
73 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
74 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
75 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
76 be set in the configfile.
78 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
79 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
80 client mode. This released fixes this.
82 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
83 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
84 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
87 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
88 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
90 * A `df' plugin has been added.
91 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
92 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
93 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
95 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
96 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
97 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
100 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
101 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
102 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
104 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
105 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
106 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
107 currently logged in users.
108 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
109 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
110 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
111 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
113 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
114 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
115 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
116 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
117 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
118 with the `-c' argument.
119 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
120 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
121 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
122 Barcellos for this patch.
124 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
125 * New modules have been added:
126 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
127 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
128 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
129 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
131 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
132 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
134 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
135 between polls up to one day.
136 * The init.d files have been improved.
137 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
139 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
140 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
141 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
143 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
144 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
145 multicast) has been added.
146 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
147 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
148 to be linked against an external library.
149 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
150 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
152 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
153 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
155 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
156 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
157 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
158 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
159 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
160 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
161 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
162 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
163 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
166 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
167 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
169 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
171 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
172 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
174 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
175 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
176 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
177 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
179 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
180 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
181 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
183 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
184 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
185 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
186 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
187 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
188 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
189 statistics will not work.
191 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
192 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
193 weird strings as disk-names..
195 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
196 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
197 about the disks and partitions.
199 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
200 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
201 and/or kernel versions.
203 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
204 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
205 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
207 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
208 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
209 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
211 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
212 * Collecting CPU statistics now
214 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
215 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
217 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
219 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
220 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
222 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
223 * The following modules are provided: