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-2006-01-28, Version 3.7.0
+2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
+ * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
+ enabled on the host.
+ * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
+
+2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
+ * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
+ configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
+ may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
+ definitions separate from the host definitions.
+ * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
+ (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
+ destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
+ * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
+ daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
+ system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
+ * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
+ nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
+ * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
+ config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
+ be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
+ * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
+ correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
+ defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
+ is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
+ option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
+ * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
+ certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
+ to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
+ many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
+
+2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
+ * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
+ it's in a non-standard location.
+ * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
+ `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
+ * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
+ a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
+ * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
+
+2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
+ * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
+ data types.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
+ be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
+
+2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
+ * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
+ * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
+ noise quality as percentage.
+ * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
+ * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
+ * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
+ includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
+ * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
+ support for the `timeticks' type.
+
+2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
+ * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
+ * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
+ * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
+ fixed.
+ * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
+ with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
+ * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
+ fails.
+ * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
+ has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
+ whatever the client thinks is `now'..
+
+2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
+ * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
+ disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
+ checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
+ redundancy.
+ * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
+ with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
+ of server and clients no longer needs to match.
+ * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
+ kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
+ interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
+ * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
+ to not block data collection.
+ * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
+ network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
+ monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
+ plugin.
+ * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
+ * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
+ of music played with xmms.
+
+2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
+ * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
+ * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
+ noise quality as percentage.
+ * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
+
+2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
+ * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
+ with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
+ * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
+ fails.
+ * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
+ has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
+ whatever the client thinks is `now'..
+
+2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
+ * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
+ been improved.
+ * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
+ such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
+ `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
+ * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
+ (i. e. without quotes).
+ * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
+ libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
+ * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
+
+2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
+ * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
+ instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
+ told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
+ documentation.
+ * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
+ configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
+ * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
+ updated.
+
+2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
+ * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
+
+2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
+ * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
+ * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
+ * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
+ * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
+ * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
+ * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
+
+2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
+ * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
+ * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
+ * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
+ initialized correctly.
+ * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
+
+2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
+ * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
+ they're given in numerically form.
+
+2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
+ * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
+ Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
+ segmentation fault.
+
+2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
+ * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
+ more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
+ * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
+ parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
+ thread-safe functions from now on.
+ * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
+ of the configuration file and exit immediately.
+ * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
+ values'-files.
+ * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
+ RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
+ write to increase IO-performance.
+ * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
+ It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
+ combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
+ packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
+ with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
+ networks.
+ * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
+ communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
+ commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
+ come.
+ * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
+ for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
+ * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
+ or STDOUT or STDERR.
+ * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
+ system's syslog daemon.
+ * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
+ entropy currently being available to the system.
+ * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
+ back values provided by the forked processes.
+ * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
+ iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
+ plugin.
+ * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
+ to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
+ * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
+ ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
+ * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
+ connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
+ * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
+ from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
+ * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
+
+2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
+ * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
+ noise quality as percentage.
+
+2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
+ * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
+
+2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
+ * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
+ * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
+ * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
+ were accounted as `zombies'.
+
+2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
+ * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
+ under FreeBSD.
+
+2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
+ * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
+ of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
+
+2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
+ * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
+ NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
+ segfault with some libcs.
+
+2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
+ * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
+ under Solaris again.
+ * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
+ non-GNU libcs.
+ * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
+ compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
+
+2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
+ * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
+ distributors to change the location of PID-files.
+ * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
+ write init.d-scripts for it.
+ * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
+ caused problems every now and then.
+ * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
+ filesystem types or devices.
+ * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
+ and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
+ rcode counts.
+ * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
+ counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
+ score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
+ * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
+ uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
+ * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
+ processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
+ segment size and pagefaults.
+ * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
+ queries multimeters.
+ * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
+ plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
+ and the possibility to ignore certain values.
+
+2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
+ * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
+ opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
+ an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
+
+2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
+ * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
+ ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
+ calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
+ freed memory.
+
+2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
+ * The sample config file has been improved.
+ * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
+ * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
+ startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
+ available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
+ available.
+ * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
+ * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
+ * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
+ plugin.
+ * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
+ during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
+
+2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
+ * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
+ the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
+ eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
+
+2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
+ * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
+ * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
+ * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
+ statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
+ * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
+ to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
+ with a test environment :)
+ * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
+ has been added.
+
+2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
+ * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
+ the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
+ working this out.
+ * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
+ * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
+ uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
+
+2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
+ * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
+ operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
+ check that.
+ * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
+ and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
+
+2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
+ * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
+ sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
+ approximately 7.6 days.
+
+2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
+ * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
+ sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
+ approximately 7.6 days.
+
+2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
+ * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
+ resolved.
+ * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
+ been resolved.
+ * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
+
+2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
+ * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
+ <http://httpd.apache.org/>
+ * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
+ <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
+ this plugin :)
+ * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
+ strength, link quality and noise ratio..
+ * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
+ * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
+ settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
+ calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
+ * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
+ * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
+ added.
+ * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
+ ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
+ * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
+ the data into text files rather than RRD files.
+
+2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
+ * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
+ resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
+
+2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
+ * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
+ with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
+
+2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
+ * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
+ the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
+ `/etc/mtab'.
+
+2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
+ * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
+ * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
+
+2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
+ * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
+ library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
+ multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
+
+2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
+ * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
+ work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
+ fixing this.
+ * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
+ Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
+
+2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
+ * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
+ of glibc.
+ * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
+ to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
+
+2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
* The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
laptop batteries..
* The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
* The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
+ * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
+ address and/or port than localhost.
+ * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
+ * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
+ and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
+ be set in the configfile.
2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
* Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
* A `df' plugin has been added.
* A `mysql' plugin has been added.
* The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
- occured, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
+ occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
* Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
- `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
- `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
- `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
- * The the memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
+ * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
* Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
Vincent)
- * If reading from hddtemp failes collectd will increase the time
+ * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
between polls up to one day.
* The init.d files have been improved.
* Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
* Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
- * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If privided under Linux IRQ and
+ * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
* Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
* Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
* Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
disabled.
- * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update failes.
+ * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
* Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
authors.
* Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
- aren't neccessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
+ aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
[1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
* Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
- collected unter Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
+ collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
* Many fixes in the autoconf-script
- * Collection/Museum scripts have been added unter contrib/museum
+ * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
* collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
statistics will not work.
about the disks and partitions.
2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
- * The meminfo mofule has been changed to work with more platforms
+ * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
and/or kernel versions.
2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
* The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
- * Nothing really usefull to say ;)
+ * Nothing really useful to say ;)
2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
* The following modules are provided: