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1 pending, Version 3.11.0
2 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
3 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
4 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
5 write init.d-scripts for it.
6 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
7 caused problems every now and then.
8 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
9 filesystem types or devices.
10 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
11 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
12 rcode counts.
13 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
14 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
15 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
16 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
17 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
18 segment size and pagefaults.
19 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
20 queries multimeters.
21 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
22 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
23 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
25 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
26 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
27 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
28 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
30 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
31 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
32 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
33 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
34 freed memory.
36 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
37 * The sample config file has been improved.
38 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
39 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
40 startup. This speeds up starup when no network connectivity is
41 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
42 available.
43 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
44 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
45 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
46 plugin.
47 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
48 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
50 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
51 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
52 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
53 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
55 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
56 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
57 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
58 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
59 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
60 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
61 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
62 with a test environment :)
63 * A plugin for moniroting an NTP instance and the local clock drift
64 has been added.
66 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
67 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
68 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
69 working this out.
70 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
71 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
72 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
74 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
75 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
76 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
77 check that.
78 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
79 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
81 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
82 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
83 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
84 approximately 7.6 days.
86 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
87 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
88 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
89 approximately 7.6 days.
91 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
92 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
93 resolved.
94 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
95 been resolved.
96 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
98 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
99 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
100 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
101 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
102 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
103 this plugin :)
104 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
105 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
106 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
107 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `hearbeat'
108 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
109 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
110 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
111 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
112 added.
113 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
114 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
115 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
116 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
118 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
119 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
120 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
122 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
123 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
124 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
126 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
127 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
128 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
129 `/etc/mtab'.
131 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
132 * Fixes for building collectd unter FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
133 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
135 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
136 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
137 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
138 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
140 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
141 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
142 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thankt to Sebastian for
143 fixing this.
144 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
145 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
147 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
148 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
149 of glibc.
150 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
151 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
153 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
154 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
155 laptop batteries..
156 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
157 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
158 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
159 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
160 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
161 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
162 address and/or port than localhost.
163 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
164 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
165 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
166 be set in the configfile.
168 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
169 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
170 client mode. This released fixes this.
172 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
173 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
174 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
175 release.
177 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
178 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
179 plugins.
180 * A `df' plugin has been added.
181 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
182 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
183 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
185 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
186 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
187 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
188 from 3.6.0).
190 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
191 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
192 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
194 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
195 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
196 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
197 currently logged in users.
198 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
199 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
200 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
201 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
203 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
204 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
205 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
206 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
207 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
208 with the `-c' argument.
209 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
210 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
211 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
212 Barcellos for this patch.
214 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
215 * New modules have been added:
216 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
217 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
218 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
219 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
221 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
222 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
223 Vincent)
224 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
225 between polls up to one day.
226 * The init.d files have been improved.
227 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
229 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
230 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
231 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
233 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
234 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
235 multicast) has been added.
236 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
237 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
238 to be linked against an external library.
239 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
240 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
242 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
243 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
245 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
246 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
247 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
248 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
249 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
250 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
251 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
252 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
253 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
254 cleanly.
256 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
257 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
258 disabled.
259 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
261 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
262 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
264 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
265 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
266 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
267 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
268 authors.
269 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
270 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
271 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
273 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
274 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
275 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
276 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
277 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
278 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
279 statistics will not work.
281 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
282 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
283 weird strings as disk-names..
285 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
286 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
287 about the disks and partitions.
289 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
290 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
291 and/or kernel versions.
293 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
294 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
295 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
297 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
298 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
299 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
301 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
302 * Collecting CPU statistics now
304 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
305 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
306 and the like..
307 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
309 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
310 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
312 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
313 * The following modules are provided:
314 * Load average
315 * Ping time
316 * Traffic
317 * Memory info