From: Florian Forster Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 00:44:55 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/collectd-4.10' into collectd-5.1 X-Git-Tag: collectd-5.1.3~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32e0d9078b73eeb889b9a1e62be72ded48d33d7d;p=collectd.git Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/collectd-4.10' into collectd-5.1 Conflicts: ChangeLog version-gen.sh --- 32e0d9078b73eeb889b9a1e62be72ded48d33d7d diff --cc ChangeLog index 4e0439ac,e8f73b5c..9678c287 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@@ -1,356 -1,24 +1,377 @@@ +2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2 + * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for his patches. + * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages + more frequently than intended. + * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used + character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault. + * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name. + * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam + log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting + this problem. + * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for reporting this bug. + +2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources. + Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem. + * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion + correctly. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli for fixing this. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of + uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for + reporting these problems. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to + "biancalana" for the fix. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been + fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch. + * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and + later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch. + +2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0 + * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has + been removed. + * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using + "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches. + * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use + the system time rather than the time reported by BIND. + * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been + added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch. + * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics + directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch. + * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in + addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard for his patch. + * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default + ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g. + regex matching. + * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various + states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann + for his patch. + * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been + added. + * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin + Ioiart for his patch. + * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the + Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux. + * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation. + Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch. + * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been + added. + * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to + Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch. + * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added. + * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added. + Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel + Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch. + * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to + Aaron Brady for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to + Jérôme Renard for his patches. + * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value + lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch + and Chris Lundquist for their work. + * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value + lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series + database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their + work. + * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to + Aurelien Rougemont for his patches. + * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been + added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + +2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources. + Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem. + * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion + correctly. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli for fixing this. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to + "biancalana" for the fix. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + +2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4 + * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang + for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables + plugin under Gentoo. + * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has + been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this + issue. + * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed. + * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7. + * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis + Opter for his patch. + * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was + truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the + patch. + * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This + was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an + endless loop. + * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been + added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his + patch. + * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and + write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this + bug. + * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has + been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and + then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value. + * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD + runtime has been fixed. + +2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3 + * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables + plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the + version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for + his patch. + * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the + DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to + Jonathan Nieder for his patch. + * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file + handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the + "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie + Roos for his patch. + * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has + been fixed. + * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been + fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch. + * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus" + interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such + as bonding pseudo-devices as well. + +2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2 + * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't + follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch! + * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can + occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius + for his patch. + * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These + pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch + to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for + high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for + their patches. + * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks + to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin + and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such + as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could + have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem. + * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling. + * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for fixing this bug! + +2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1 + * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks + to Rafal Lesniak for his patch. + * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks + to Peter Green for his patch. + * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin + McCabe for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type + instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been + added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial + code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module. + * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts. + Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this. + * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc. + * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code + assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer + true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this. + * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been + added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch. + * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing + spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter. + Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks + to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this. + * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values + were submitted as gauge even though they were derives. + * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike + Flisher for the fix. + +2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0 + * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default. + * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to + allow a higher accuracy than one second. + * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands + to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad + Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code. + * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as + critical). + * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic + compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to + stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general. + * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been + added to the collectd client library. + * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly + one data source has been changed to "value". + * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to + "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but + plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of + course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the + maximum value is unspecified. + * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data + from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code. + * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel + Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch. + * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added. + Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch. + * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to + the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4. + * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from + "dnstop". + * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to + "Connection" blocks. + * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been + removed. + * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface + value. + * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks + to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch. + * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization + technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and + patience. + * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the + license has been changed to LGPLv2.1. + * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The + data sets used have been improved. + * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to + 1452 bytes. + * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key- + value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code. + * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory + statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical + memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches. + * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into + this separate plugin. + * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added. + * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from + Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc + Fournier for their contributions. + * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value + store. + * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant + alternatives. + * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5 + schema. + + 2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + 2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8 * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove unwanted permission bits.