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1 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
2 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
3 `Persist' threshold options.
4 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
5 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
6 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
7 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
8 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
10 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
11 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
12 * network plugin:
13 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
14 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
15 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
16 cross-platform compatibility.
17 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
18 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
19 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
21 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
22 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
23 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
24 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
25 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
26 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
27 created.
28 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
29 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
30 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
31 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
32 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
33 wants to add custom type definitions.
34 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
35 entire directories and shell wildcards.
36 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
37 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
38 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
39 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
40 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
41 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
42 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
43 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
44 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
45 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
46 domain name lookups in this plugin.
47 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
48 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
49 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
50 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
51 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
52 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
53 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
54 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
55 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
56 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
57 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
58 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
59 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
60 Technology group for this plugin.
62 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
63 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
64 they are in non-standard paths.
65 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
66 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
67 using them.
68 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
69 using a buffer of static size.
70 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
71 the program.
72 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
74 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
75 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
76 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
77 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
78 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
80 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
81 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
82 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
83 * network plugin:
84 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
85 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
86 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
87 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
88 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
89 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
90 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
91 cross-platform compatibility.
92 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
93 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
94 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
95 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
97 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
98 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
99 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
100 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
101 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
103 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
104 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
105 of the libsensors library.
107 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
108 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
109 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
110 this.
111 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
112 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
113 for fixing this.
115 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
116 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
117 enabled on the host.
118 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
120 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
121 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
122 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
123 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
124 definitions separate from the host definitions.
125 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
126 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
127 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
128 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
129 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
130 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
131 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
132 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
133 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
134 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
135 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
136 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
137 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
138 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
139 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
140 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
141 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
142 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
143 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
144 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
145 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
147 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
148 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
149 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
150 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
151 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
153 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
154 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
155 memory situations.
156 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
157 of the libsensors library.
159 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
160 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
161 it's in a non-standard location.
162 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
163 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
164 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
165 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
166 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
167 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
169 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
170 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
171 data types.
172 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
173 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
175 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
176 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
177 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
178 noise quality as percentage.
179 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
180 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
181 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
182 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
183 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
184 support for the `timeticks' type.
186 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
187 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
188 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
189 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
190 fixed.
191 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
192 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
193 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
194 fails.
195 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
196 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
197 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
198 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
200 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
201 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
202 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
203 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
204 redundancy.
205 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
206 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
207 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
208 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
209 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
210 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
211 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
212 to not block data collection.
213 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
214 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
215 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
216 plugin.
217 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
218 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
219 of music played with xmms.
221 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
222 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
223 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
224 noise quality as percentage.
225 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
227 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
228 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
229 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
230 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
231 fails.
232 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
233 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
234 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
235 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
237 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
238 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
239 been improved.
240 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
241 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
242 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
243 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
244 (i. e. without quotes).
245 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
246 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
247 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
249 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
250 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
251 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
252 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
253 documentation.
254 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
255 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
256 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
257 updated.
259 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
260 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
262 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
263 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
264 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
265 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
266 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
267 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
268 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
270 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
271 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
272 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
273 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
274 initialized correctly.
275 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
277 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
278 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
279 they're given in numerically form.
281 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
282 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
283 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
284 segmentation fault.
286 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
287 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
288 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
289 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
290 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
291 thread-safe functions from now on.
292 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
293 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
294 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
295 values'-files.
296 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
297 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
298 write to increase IO-performance.
299 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
300 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
301 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
302 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
303 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
304 networks.
305 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
306 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
307 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
308 come.
309 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
310 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
311 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
312 or STDOUT or STDERR.
313 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
314 system's syslog daemon.
315 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
316 entropy currently being available to the system.
317 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
318 back values provided by the forked processes.
319 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
320 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
321 plugin.
322 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
323 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
324 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
325 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
326 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
327 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
328 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
329 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
330 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
332 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
333 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
334 noise quality as percentage.
336 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
337 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
339 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
340 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
341 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
342 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
343 were accounted as `zombies'.
345 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
346 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
347 under FreeBSD.
349 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
350 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
351 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
353 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
354 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
355 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
356 segfault with some libcs.
358 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
359 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
360 under Solaris again.
361 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
362 non-GNU libcs.
363 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
364 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
366 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
367 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
368 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
369 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
370 write init.d-scripts for it.
371 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
372 caused problems every now and then.
373 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
374 filesystem types or devices.
375 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
376 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
377 rcode counts.
378 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
379 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
380 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
381 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
382 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
383 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
384 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
385 segment size and pagefaults.
386 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
387 queries multimeters.
388 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
389 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
390 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
392 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
393 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
394 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
395 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
397 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
398 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
399 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
400 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
401 freed memory.
403 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
404 * The sample config file has been improved.
405 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
406 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
407 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
408 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
409 available.
410 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
411 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
412 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
413 plugin.
414 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
415 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
417 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
418 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
419 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
420 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
422 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
423 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
424 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
425 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
426 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
427 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
428 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
429 with a test environment :)
430 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
431 has been added.
433 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
434 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
435 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
436 working this out.
437 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
438 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
439 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
441 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
442 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
443 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
444 check that.
445 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
446 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
448 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
449 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
450 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
451 approximately 7.6 days.
453 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
454 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
455 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
456 approximately 7.6 days.
458 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
459 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
460 resolved.
461 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
462 been resolved.
463 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
465 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
466 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
467 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
468 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
469 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
470 this plugin :)
471 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
472 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
473 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
474 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
475 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
476 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
477 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
478 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
479 added.
480 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
481 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
482 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
483 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
485 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
486 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
487 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
489 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
490 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
491 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
493 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
494 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
495 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
496 `/etc/mtab'.
498 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
499 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
500 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
502 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
503 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
504 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
505 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
507 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
508 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
509 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
510 fixing this.
511 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
512 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
514 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
515 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
516 of glibc.
517 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
518 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
520 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
521 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
522 laptop batteries..
523 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
524 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
525 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
526 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
527 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
528 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
529 address and/or port than localhost.
530 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
531 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
532 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
533 be set in the configfile.
535 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
536 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
537 client mode. This released fixes this.
539 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
540 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
541 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
542 release.
544 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
545 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
546 plugins.
547 * A `df' plugin has been added.
548 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
549 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
550 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
552 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
553 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
554 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
555 from 3.6.0).
557 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
558 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
559 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
561 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
562 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
563 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
564 currently logged in users.
565 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
566 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
567 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
568 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
570 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
571 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
572 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
573 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
574 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
575 with the `-c' argument.
576 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
577 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
578 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
579 Barcellos for this patch.
581 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
582 * New modules have been added:
583 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
584 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
585 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
586 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
588 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
589 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
590 Vincent)
591 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
592 between polls up to one day.
593 * The init.d files have been improved.
594 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
596 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
597 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
598 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
600 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
601 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
602 multicast) has been added.
603 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
604 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
605 to be linked against an external library.
606 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
607 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
609 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
610 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
612 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
613 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
614 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
615 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
616 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
617 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
618 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
619 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
620 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
621 cleanly.
623 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
624 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
625 disabled.
626 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
628 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
629 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
631 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
632 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
633 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
634 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
635 authors.
636 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
637 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
638 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
640 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
641 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
642 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
643 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
644 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
645 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
646 statistics will not work.
648 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
649 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
650 weird strings as disk-names..
652 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
653 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
654 about the disks and partitions.
656 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
657 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
658 and/or kernel versions.
660 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
661 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
662 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
664 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
665 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
666 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
668 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
669 * Collecting CPU statistics now
671 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
672 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
673 and the like..
674 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
676 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
677 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
679 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
680 * The following modules are provided:
681 * Load average
682 * Ping time
683 * Traffic
684 * Memory info