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-collectd (4.0.0~rc6-1) experimental; urgency=low
+collectd (5.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ Version 5 of collectd introduced a couple of backward-incompatible changes.
+ The full list of changes is documented in the collectd wiki found at
+ <https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/V4_to_v5_migration_guide>.
+
+ In a client / server setups it's generally advised to upgrade the server
+ first. By using the v5_upgrade target plugin, the v5 server will be able to
+ receive and process data sent by v4 clients. This allows one to upgrade the
+ clients at an arbitrary later date. See the wiki for details.
+
+ The layout of various RRD files has changed. In order to keep your old data
+ you have to migrate it. This can be done by using /usr/lib/collectd/utils/
+ migrate-4-5.px. The script will output a series of shell commands that
+ should do all the work automatically. However, depending on your setup, a
+ couple of minor changes might be necessary to migrate all of your data. In
+ this case, please file a bug report so that the necessary changes can be
+ added to the script. The script will modify the RRD files in place.
+
+ Thus, the migration can be done like this (you might want to backup your
+ data before):
+
+ /usr/lib/collectd/utils/migrate-4-5.px -indir /var/lib/collectd/rrd/ \
+ > migrate-4-5.sh
+ vim migrate-4-5.sh # verify / adapt the script
+ bash migrate-4-5.sh
+
+ Also, the syntax of some plugin configuration blocks has changed. See the
+ wiki for details and instructions how to update your configuration.
+
+ -- Sebastian Harl <tokkee@debian.org> Sat, 19 May 2012 15:13:21 +0200
+
+collectd (4.2.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
+
+ Prior to this version any plugin that has dependencies other than libc6 got
+ its own binary package. As the number of such packages was getting quite big
+ they have been merged into the "collectd" binary package and all plugin
+ dependencies were added as recommendations. See
+ /usr/share/doc/collectd-core/README.Debian.plugins for details.
+
+ -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org> Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:38:21 +0100
+
+collectd (4.0.2-1) experimental; urgency=low
This version introduces significant changes to the layout of the RRD files
created by collectd. In order to keep your old data you have to migrate it.
mkdir /var/lib/collectd
mv /tmp/collectd-4 /var/lib/collectd/rrd
+ Thanks to the new plugin infrastructure, the functionality to write RRD and
+ CSV files and the logging and networking facilities could be removed from
+ collectd's core and put into separate plugins, allowing more flexible
+ configurations. To get the behavior of collectd 3.x you have to enable the
+ "rrdtool" and "syslog" plugins (enabled by default) and enable and configure
+ the network plugin. See collectd.conf(5) for details.
+
+ This also means that a single configuration file is sufficient and there are
+ no longer any different modes that need to be configured. The init script
+ does no longer start one collectd process for each config file found in
+ /etc/collectd/ but only for collectd.conf.
+
Additionally, the syntax of the configuration file has changed slightly. All
strings need to be surrounded by double quotes. See collectd.conf(5) for
details.
- -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org> Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:44:26 +0200
+ Please note that there is no longer the need to load any plugins on the
+ server side just to be able to save values submitted by clients. All
+ required information are automatically loaded by collectd. You only need to
+ load plugins which are supposed to collect data locally.
+
+ See also: https://collectd.org/migrate-v3-v4.shtml
+
+ -- Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:36:58 +0200