1 2006-06-18, Version 3.9.4
2 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
3 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
4 working this out.
5 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
7 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
8 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
9 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
10 check that.
11 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
12 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
14 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
15 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
16 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
17 approximately 7.6 days.
19 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
20 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
21 resolved.
22 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
23 been resolved.
24 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
26 2006-04-15, Version 3.9.0
27 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
28 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
29 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
30 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
31 this plugin :)
32 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
33 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
34 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
35 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `hearbeat'
36 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
37 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
38 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
39 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
40 added.
41 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
42 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
43 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
44 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
46 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
47 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
48 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
50 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
51 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
52 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
54 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
55 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
56 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
57 `/etc/mtab'.
59 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
60 * Fixes for building collectd unter FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
61 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
63 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
64 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
65 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
66 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
68 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
69 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
70 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thankt to Sebastian for
71 fixing this.
72 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
73 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
75 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
76 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
77 of glibc.
78 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
79 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
81 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
82 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
83 laptop batteries..
84 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
85 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
86 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
87 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
88 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
89 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
90 address and/or port than localhost.
91 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
92 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
93 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
94 be set in the configfile.
96 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
97 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
98 client mode. This released fixes this.
100 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
101 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
102 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
103 release.
105 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
106 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
107 plugins.
108 * A `df' plugin has been added.
109 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
110 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
111 occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
113 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
114 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
115 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
116 from 3.6.0).
118 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
119 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
120 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
122 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
123 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
124 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
125 currently logged in users.
126 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
127 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
128 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
129 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
131 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
132 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
133 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
134 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
135 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
136 with the `-c' argument.
137 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
138 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
139 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
140 Barcellos for this patch.
142 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
143 * New modules have been added:
144 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
145 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
146 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
147 * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
149 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
150 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
151 Vincent)
152 * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
153 between polls up to one day.
154 * The init.d files have been improved.
155 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
157 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
158 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
159 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
161 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
162 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
163 multicast) has been added.
164 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
165 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
166 to be linked against an external library.
167 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
168 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
170 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
171 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
173 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
174 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
175 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
176 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
177 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
178 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
179 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
180 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
181 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
182 cleanly.
184 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
185 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
186 disabled.
187 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
189 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
190 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
192 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
193 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
194 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
195 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
196 authors.
197 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
198 aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
199 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
201 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
202 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
203 collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
204 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
205 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
206 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
207 statistics will not work.
209 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
210 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
211 weird strings as disk-names..
213 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
214 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
215 about the disks and partitions.
217 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
218 * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
219 and/or kernel versions.
221 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
222 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
223 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
225 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
226 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
227 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
229 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
230 * Collecting CPU statistics now
232 2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
233 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
234 and the like..
235 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
237 2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
238 * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
240 2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
241 * The following modules are provided:
242 * Load average
243 * Ping time
244 * Traffic
245 * Memory info