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 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
26 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
27 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
28 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
29 freed memory.
31 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
32 * The sample config file has been improved.
33 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
34 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
35 startup. This speeds up starup when no network connectivity is
36 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
37 available.
38 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
39 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
40 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
41 plugin.
42 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
43 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
45 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
46 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
47 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
48 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
50 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
51 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
52 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
53 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
54 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
55 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
56 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
57 with a test environment :)
58 * A plugin for moniroting an NTP instance and the local clock drift
59 has been added.
61 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
62 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
63 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
64 working this out.
65 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
66 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
67 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
69 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
70 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
71 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
72 check that.
73 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
74 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
76 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
77 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
78 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
79 approximately 7.6 days.
81 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
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 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
87 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
88 resolved.
89 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
90 been resolved.
91 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
93 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
94 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
95 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
96 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
97 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
98 this plugin :)
99 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
100 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
101 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
102 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `hearbeat'
103 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
104 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
105 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
106 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
107 added.
108 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
109 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
110 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
111 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
113 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
114 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
115 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
117 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
118 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
119 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
121 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
122 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
123 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
124 `/etc/mtab'.
126 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
127 * Fixes for building collectd unter FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
128 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
130 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
131 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
132 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
133 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
135 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
136 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
137 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thankt to Sebastian for
138 fixing this.
139 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
140 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
142 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
143 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
144 of glibc.
145 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
146 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
148 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
149 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
150 laptop batteries..
151 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
152 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
153 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
154 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
155 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
156 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
157 address and/or port than localhost.
158 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
159 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
160 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
161 be set in the configfile.
163 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
164 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
165 client mode. This released fixes this.
167 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
168 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
169 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
170 release.
172 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
173 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
174 plugins.
175 * A `df' plugin has been added.
176 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
177 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
178 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
180 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
181 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
182 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
183 from 3.6.0).
185 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
186 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
187 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
189 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
190 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
191 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
192 currently logged in users.
193 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
194 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
195 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
196 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
198 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
199 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
200 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
201 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
202 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
203 with the `-c' argument.
204 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
205 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
206 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
207 Barcellos for this patch.
209 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
210 * New modules have been added:
211 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
212 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
213 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
214 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
216 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
217 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
218 Vincent)
219 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
220 between polls up to one day.
221 * The init.d files have been improved.
222 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
224 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
225 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
226 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
228 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
229 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
230 multicast) has been added.
231 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
232 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
233 to be linked against an external library.
234 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
235 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
237 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
238 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
240 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
241 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
242 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
243 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
244 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
245 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
246 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
247 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
248 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
249 cleanly.
251 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
252 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
253 disabled.
254 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
256 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
257 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
259 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
260 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
261 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
262 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
263 authors.
264 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
265 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
266 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
268 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
269 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
270 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
271 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
272 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
273 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
274 statistics will not work.
276 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
277 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
278 weird strings as disk-names..
280 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
281 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
282 about the disks and partitions.
284 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
285 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
286 and/or kernel versions.
288 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
289 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
290 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
292 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
293 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
294 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
296 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
297 * Collecting CPU statistics now
299 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
300 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
301 and the like..
302 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
304 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
305 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
307 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
308 * The following modules are provided:
309 * Load average
310 * Ping time
311 * Traffic
312 * Memory info