X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=27f58e9a4747a51c51a37bb516f9d55df094a520;hb=HEAD;hp=1d6decbea9828e484158db9bed9b54d910dab889;hpb=658c85755ef1f4284228d1e5edbc4452a31bd944;p=collectd.git diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1d6decbe..27f58e9a 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,1161 @@ +2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0 + * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include + only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his + patch. + * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This + improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act + as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for + reviewing this change and fixing bugs. + * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using + regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric + can now be set via the configuration file. + * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented. + * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers + has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch. + * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks + to Dan Fandrich for his patch. + * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The + "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch. + * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to + Greg Mason for his patch. + * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks + to Johan Wirén for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication / + compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his + patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work. + * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for his patches. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been + implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created + asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances. + Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code. + * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV + files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for + his patch. + * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added. + * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to + Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to + Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work. + +2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for his patch. + * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed. + * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks + to Manuel Cissé for his patch. + * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed. + * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed. + * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback. + * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to + "jkrabbe" for the patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + +2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1 + * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris + and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches. + * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages + more frequently than intended. + * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added. + * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used + character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault. + * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed. + A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was + configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these + problems. + * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name. + * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the + "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been + fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources + has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam + log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting + the logging problem. + * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for reporting this bug. + +2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0 + * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved. + Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch. + * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a + per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for + his work. + * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real + looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new + plugin, for example. + * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets + in the binary format has been added. + * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple + value lists into one. + * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON + output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch. + * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to + Thomas Meson for the patch. + * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to + Manuel Rozada for his patch. + * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the + Mac OS X version. + * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't + configured. + * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks + to "Davide Guerri" for the patch. + * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added. + Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch. + * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The + behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to + Johan Kiviniemi for the patches. + * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added. + * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's + packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes + for their work. + * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added. + Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches. + * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to + Cosmin Ioiart for the patch. + * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added. + Thanks to biancalana for the patch. + * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan", + "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added. + * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX + version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out + "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch. + * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc + for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch. + +2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed. + * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks + to Manuel Cissé for his patch. + * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback. + * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to + "jkrabbe" for the patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + +2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2 + * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for his patches. + * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages + more frequently than intended. + * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used + character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault. + * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name. + * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam + log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting + this problem. + * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for reporting this bug. + +2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources. + Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem. + * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion + correctly. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli for fixing this. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of + uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for + reporting these problems. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to + "biancalana" for the fix. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been + fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch. + * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and + later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch. + +2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0 + * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has + been removed. + * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using + "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches. + * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use + the system time rather than the time reported by BIND. + * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been + added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch. + * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics + directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch. + * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in + addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard for his patch. + * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default + ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g. + regex matching. + * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various + states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann + for his patch. + * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been + added. + * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin + Ioiart for his patch. + * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the + Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux. + * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation. + Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch. + * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been + added. + * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to + Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch. + * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added. + * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added. + Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel + Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch. + * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to + Aaron Brady for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to + Jérôme Renard for his patches. + * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value + lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch + and Chris Lundquist for their work. + * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value + lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series + database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their + work. + * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to + Aurelien Rougemont for his patches. + * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been + added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + +2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources. + Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem. + * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion + correctly. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli for fixing this. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to + "biancalana" for the fix. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + +2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4 + * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang + for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables + plugin under Gentoo. + * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has + been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this + issue. + * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed. + * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7. + * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis + Opter for his patch. + * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was + truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the + patch. + * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This + was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an + endless loop. + * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been + added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his + patch. + * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and + write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this + bug. + * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has + been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and + then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value. + * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD + runtime has been fixed. + +2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3 + * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables + plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the + version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for + his patch. + * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the + DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to + Jonathan Nieder for his patch. + * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file + handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the + "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie + Roos for his patch. + * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has + been fixed. + * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been + fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch. + * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus" + interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such + as bonding pseudo-devices as well. + +2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2 + * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't + follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch! + * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can + occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius + for his patch. + * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These + pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch + to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for + high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for + their patches. + * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks + to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin + and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such + as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could + have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem. + * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling. + * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for fixing this bug! + +2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1 + * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks + to Rafal Lesniak for his patch. + * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks + to Peter Green for his patch. + * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin + McCabe for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type + instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been + added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial + code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module. + * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts. + Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this. + * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc. + * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code + assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer + true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this. + * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been + added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch. + * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing + spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter. + Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks + to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this. + * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values + were submitted as gauge even though they were derives. + * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike + Flisher for the fix. + +2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0 + * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default. + * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to + allow a higher accuracy than one second. + * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands + to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad + Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code. + * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as + critical). + * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic + compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to + stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general. + * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been + added to the collectd client library. + * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly + one data source has been changed to "value". + * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to + "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but + plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of + course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the + maximum value is unspecified. + * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data + from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code. + * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel + Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch. + * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added. + Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch. + * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to + the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4. + * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from + "dnstop". + * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to + "Connection" blocks. + * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been + removed. + * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface + value. + * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks + to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch. + * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization + technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and + patience. + * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the + license has been changed to LGPLv2.1. + * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The + data sets used have been improved. + * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to + 1452 bytes. + * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. + * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key- + value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code. + * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory + statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical + memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches. + * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into + this separate plugin. + * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added. + * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from + Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc + Fournier for their contributions. + * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value + store. + * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant + alternatives. + * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5 + schema. + +2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + +2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + +2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7 + * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang + for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables + plugin under Gentoo. + * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has + been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this + issue. + * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed. + * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7. + * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis + Opter for his patch. + * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was + truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the + patch. + * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This + was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an + endless loop. + * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been + added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his + patch. + * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and + write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this + bug. + * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has + been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and + then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value. + * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD + runtime has been fixed. + +2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6 + * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables + plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the + version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for + his patch. + * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the + DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to + Jonathan Nieder for his patch. + * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file + handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the + "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie + Roos for his patch. + * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has + been fixed. + * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been + fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch. + * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus" + interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such + as bonding pseudo-devices as well. + +2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5 + * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't + follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch! + * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can + occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius + for his patch. + * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These + pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch + to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for + high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for + their patches. + * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks + to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin + and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such + as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could + have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem. + * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling. + * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for fixing this bug! + +2011-10-14, Version 4.10.4 + * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks + to Rafal Lesniak for his patch. + * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks + to Peter Green for his patch. + * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin + McCabe for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type + instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been + added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial + code. + * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc. + * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code + assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer + true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this. + * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been + added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch. + * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing + spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter. + Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks + to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this. + * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike + Flisher for the fix. + +2011-03-26, Version 4.10.3 + * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to + Bruno Prémont. + * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the + percentage calculation has been fixed. + * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have + been improved. + * curl_json plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. + * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been + fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem. + * modbus plugin: Compatibility with libmodbus 2.0.3 has been restored. + * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an + error handling case. + * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to + collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this + problem. + +2010-11-27, Version 4.10.2 + * Documentation: Various documentation fixes. + * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with + the rest of the configuration if possible. + * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases + read functions may not have been called as often as requested. + * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been + fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX. + Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch. + * collectd: A left-over hard-coded 2 has been replaced by the + configurable timeout value. + * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data + sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to + Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading + JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed. + * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function. + Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for the patch. + * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order + to prevent spamming the logs. + * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed. + * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that + it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating + RRD files. + * swap plugin: A bug which lead to incorrect I/O values has been + fixed. + * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven + Trenkel for the patch. + +2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1 + * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed. + * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to + Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch. + * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has + been improved. + * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been + removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this. + * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has + been added. + * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a + struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this. + * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks + have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not + configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches. + * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been + increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been + fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks! + * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above + have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes. + +2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0 + * collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames" + fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret + the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work. + * collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a + "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking + code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the + patch. + * apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers") + has been added. + * curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain + lines from the match. + * curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL + and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for + his work. + * filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include + "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav + Malek for the patch. + * logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the + severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for + his patch. + * memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude + certain lines from the match. + * modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from + Modbus-TCP enabled devices. + * network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the + interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast + traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work. + * openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers" + options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of + multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work. + * pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the + Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and + webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work. + * ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts + address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks + to Stefan Völkel for the patch. + * postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The + plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to + Sebastian Harl for his work. + * processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes + has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch. + * python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to + Sven Trenkel for his work. + * routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used + and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from + MikroTik devices has been added. + * swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin + Scraba for his patch. + * tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain + lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch. + * write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to + Paul Sadauskas for his patch. + * regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien + Ammous for his patch. + +2011-03-26, Version 4.9.5 + * Documentation: Several updates and additions. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. + * collectd: Build issues (compiler warnings) have been fixed. Thanks to + Bruno Prémont. + * collectd: Threshold subsection: Handling of NAN values in the + percentage calculation has been fixed. + * collectd, java plugin, ntpd plugin: Several diagnostic messages have + been improved. + * libvirt plugin: A bug in reading the virtual CPU statistics has been + fixed. Thanks to “JLPC” for reporting this problem. + * processes plugin: Potentially erroneous behavior has been fixed in an + error handling case. + * python plugin: Fix dispatching of values from Python scripts to + collectd. Thanks to Gregory Szorc for finding and fixing this + problem. + +2010-11-27, Version 4.9.4 + * Documentation: Various documentation fixes. + * collectd: If including one configuration file fails, continue with + the rest of the configuration if possible. + * collectd: Fix a bug in the read function scheduling. In rare cases + read functions may not have been called as often as requested. + * collectd: Concurrency issues with errno(3) under AIX have been + fixed: A thread-safe version of errno has to be requested under AIX. + Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patch. + * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: Fix handling of "DERIVE" data + sources. Matching the end of a string has been improved; thanks to + Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * curl_json plugin: Fix a problem when parsing 64bit integers. Reading + JSON data from non-HTTP sources has been fixed. + * netapp plugin: Pass the interval setting to the dispatch function. + Restore compatibility to NetApp Release 7.3. Thanks to Sven Trenkel + for the patch. + * network plugin: Be less verbose about unchecked signatures, in order + to prevent spamming the logs. + * notify_email plugin: Concurrency problems have been fixed. + * python plugin: Set "sys.argv", since many scripts don't expect that + it may not be set. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for the patch. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugin: Fix a too strict assertion when creating + RRD files. + * value match: A minor memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven + Trenkel for the patch. + +2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3 + * Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed. + * Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to + Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches. + * collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has + been improved. + * collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed. + * libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been + removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this. + * df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has + been added. + * processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a + struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this. + * python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks + have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not + configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches. + * rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to + Thorsten von Eicken for the patch. + * snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been + increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been + fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks! + * powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above + have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes. + +2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2 + * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been + added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches. + * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has + been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for + figuring out a way to make this work. + * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR. + * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed. + Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error. + * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added; + the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg + for the patch. + * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one + file fails. + * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has + been fixed for Apache 2.*. + * contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly. + Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug. + * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag + is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails. + * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a + warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for + the work-around. + * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file. + Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch. + * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with + an unknown data source type. + * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network + packets has been fixed. + * openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status + files. + * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in + this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem. + * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been + fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out. + * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to + be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + +2010-01-14, Version 4.9.1 + * Documentation: Some manpage fixes. + * Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins. + * apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of + VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch. + * processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an + incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically + indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly + again. + * routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field. + * Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace. + * Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building + debugging output. + +2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0 + * contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the + number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik + Weiskircher for the patch. + * cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has + been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch. + * curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks + to Aman Gupta for the patch. + * df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been + added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch. + * exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and + “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application. + * Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from + mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch. + * netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers. + Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch. + * network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has + been implemented. + * openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”. + Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch. + * OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics + has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch. + * ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device" + have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to + Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. + * python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter + into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting + language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work. + * routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and + wireless registration statistics from RouterOS. + * Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk, + interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to + Manuel Sanmartin for his patches. + * hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant + storage has been added. + * scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary + value has been added. + +2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5 + * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR. + * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with + an unknown data source type. + +2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4 + * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been + added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches. + * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has + been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for + figuring out a way to make this work. + * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed. + Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error. + * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added; + the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg + for the patch. + * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one + file fails. + * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has + been fixed for Apache 2.*. + * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag + is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails. + * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a + warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for + the work-around. + * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file. + Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch. + * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network + packets has been fixed. + * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in + this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem. + * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been + fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out. + * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to + be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + +2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3 + * Documentation: Some manpage fixes. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an + incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically + indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly + again. + +2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2 + * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java + headers, because it's a GNU extension. + * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks + Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this. + * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been + loaded. + * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors. + * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors. + * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed. + * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1. + * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies. + * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been + added. + * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings + containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings. + * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been + fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch. + +2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1 + * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been + fixed. + * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2). + * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build + issues on some platforms. + * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to + Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. + * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file + descriptor handling. + +2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0 + * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have + been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset + occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this. + * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and + “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his + patches. + * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using + the cURL library and parses the contents according to user + specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics + from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch. + * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather + than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to + Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added. + Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch. + * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to + query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management + Extensions” (JMX). + * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about + Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to + Ondrej Zajicek for his patches. + * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made + configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to + Aman Gupta for the patch. + * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from + the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon. + * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random + write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by + writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the + patch. + * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has + been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the + patch. + * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of + records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to + Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be + used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier. + * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values + collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests. + Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch. + * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about + the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System” + (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch. + * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value + lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the + counter value of all counter data sources is zero. + +2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5 + * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java + headers, because it's a GNU extension. + * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks + Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this. + * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been + loaded. + * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed. + * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1. + * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies. + * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been + added. + * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings + containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings. + * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been + fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch. + +2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4 + * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been + fixed. + * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2). + * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build + issues on some platforms. + * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to + Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. + * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file + descriptor handling. + +2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3 + * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching + code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. + * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing. + This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return + old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J. + Díaz for the patch. + * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library + to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug. + * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system, + possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey + Hess for reporting this bug. + * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been + updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it + is linked with the shipped library, too. + * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has + forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when + forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured + during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins. + * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks + to Alan Pevec for the patch. + * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The + value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the + gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has + been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch. + * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram + socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An + incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling + for his patches. + 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java bindings. @@ -72,6 +1230,27 @@ * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch. +2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5 + * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing. + This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return + old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J. + Díaz for the patch. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library + to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug. + * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system, + possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey + Hess for reporting this bug. + * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been + updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it + is linked with the shipped library, too. + * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks + to Alan Pevec for the patch. + * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram + socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An + incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling + for his patches. + 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for fixing this bug. @@ -1152,15 +2331,15 @@ 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats * Collecting CPU statistics now -2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog +2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings and the like.. * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd -2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes +2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes * Nothing really useful to say ;) -2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version +2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version * The following modules are provided: * Load average * Ping time