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1 2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
2 * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
3 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
4 incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
5 indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
6 again.
8 2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
9 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
10 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
11 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
12 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
13 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
14 loaded.
15 * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
16 * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
17 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
18 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
19 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
20 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
21 added.
22 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
23 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
24 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
25 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
27 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
28 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
29 fixed.
30 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
31 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
32 issues on some platforms.
33 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
34 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
35 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
36 descriptor handling.
38 2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
39 * collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
40 been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
41 occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
42 * thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
43 “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
44 patches.
45 * curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
46 the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
47 specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
48 from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
49 * df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
50 than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
51 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
52 * dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
53 Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
54 * GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
55 query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
56 Extensions” (JMX).
57 * madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
58 Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
59 Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
60 * network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
61 configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
62 Aman Gupta for the patch.
63 * olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
64 the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
65 * rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
66 write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
67 writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
68 patch.
69 * swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
70 been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
71 patch.
72 * tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
73 records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
74 Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
75 * unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
76 used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
77 * write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
78 collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
79 Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
80 * zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
81 the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
82 (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
83 * empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
84 lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
85 counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
87 2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
88 * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
89 headers, because it's a GNU extension.
90 * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
91 Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
92 * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
93 loaded.
94 * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
95 * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
96 * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
97 * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
98 added.
99 * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
100 containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
101 * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
102 fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
104 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
105 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
106 fixed.
107 * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
108 * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
109 issues on some platforms.
110 * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
111 Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
112 * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
113 descriptor handling.
115 2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
116 * collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
117 code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
118 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
119 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
120 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
121 Díaz for the patch.
122 * collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
123 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
124 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
125 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
126 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
127 Hess for reporting this bug.
128 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
129 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
130 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
131 is linked with the shipped library, too.
132 * java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
133 forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
134 forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
135 during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
136 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
137 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
138 * network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
139 value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
140 gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
141 been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
142 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
143 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
144 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
145 for his patches.
147 2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
148 * Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
149 bindings.
150 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
151 Díaz for fixing this bug.
152 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
153 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
154 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
155 for reporting the bug.
156 * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
158 2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
159 * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
160 details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
161 libtool 2.2 has been added.
162 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
163 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
164 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
165 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
166 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
167 fixed.
168 * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
169 resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
170 Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
171 * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
172 ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
173 this out.
174 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
175 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
177 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
178 * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
179 Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
180 * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
181 improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
182 * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
183 tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
184 * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
185 Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
186 Konetzko for the patch.
187 * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
188 multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
189 * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
190 making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
191 * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
192 memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
193 Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
194 * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
195 has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
196 * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
197 added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
198 * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
199 Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
200 * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
201 * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
202 Quiédeville for the patch.
203 * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
204 has been added.
205 * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
206 about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
207 * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
208 plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
209 * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
210 structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
211 * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
212 from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
213 plugin.
214 * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
215 information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
216 * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
217 deviation of round-trip times has been added.
218 * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
219 uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
221 2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
222 * collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
223 This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
224 old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
225 Díaz for the patch.
226 * apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
227 to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
228 * df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
229 possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
230 Hess for reporting this bug.
231 * iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
232 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
233 updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
234 is linked with the shipped library, too.
235 * libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
236 to Alan Pevec for the patch.
237 * powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
238 socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed. An
239 incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
240 for his patches.
242 2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
243 * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
244 Díaz for fixing this bug.
245 * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
246 code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
247 * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
248 for reporting the bug.
250 2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
251 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
252 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
253 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
254 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
255 providing an OpenBSD system.
256 * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
257 first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
258 caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
259 J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
260 * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
261 fixed.
262 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
263 interval.
264 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
265 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
266 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
267 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
268 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
269 the patch.
270 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
271 * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
272 to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
274 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
275 * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
276 * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
277 * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
278 added.
279 * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
280 name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
281 Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
282 * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
283 sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
284 is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
285 * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
286 primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
287 * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
288 * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
289 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
290 is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
291 initialized, the daemon may crash.
293 2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
294 * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
295 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
296 * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
297 * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
298 for finding and fixing most of them.
299 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
300 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
302 2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
303 * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
304 user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
305 * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
306 testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
307 * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
308 use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
309 been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
310 * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
311 unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
312 * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
313 expressions.
314 * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
315 * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
316 * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
317 * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
318 expressions.
319 * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
320 * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
321 statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
322 Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
323 * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
324 sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
325 example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
326 Kuhnle for the patch.
327 * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
328 files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
329 to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
330 MacEachern for the patch.
331 * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
332 them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
333 * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
334 relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
335 it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
336 libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
337 * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
338 ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
339 select interfaces, too.
340 * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
341 Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
342 * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
343 for the patch.
344 * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
345 socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
346 * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
347 code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
348 * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
349 OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
350 * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
351 database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
352 similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
353 * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
354 have been added.
355 * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
356 * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
357 * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
358 allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
359 * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
360 updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
361 plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
362 Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
363 been added.
364 * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
365 been added. Portability fixes.
366 * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
367 RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
368 the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
369 features.
370 * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
371 added.
373 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
374 * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
375 OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
376 for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
377 Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
378 providing an OpenBSD system.
379 * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
380 * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
381 interval.
382 * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
383 * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
384 Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
385 * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
386 Tomasz Pala for the patch.
387 * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
388 the patch.
389 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
390 is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
391 initialized, the daemon may crash.
392 * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
394 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
395 * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
396 not available.
397 * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
398 * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
399 * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
400 patch.
401 * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
402 faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
403 * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
404 code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.
406 2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
407 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
408 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
409 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
410 reporting this.
411 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
412 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
413 * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
414 `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
415 library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
416 provide these necessary functions.
417 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
418 * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
419 portability.
420 * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
421 This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
422 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
423 * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
424 segmentation fault.
425 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
426 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
427 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
428 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
429 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
430 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
431 this issue.
432 * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
433 invalid configuration options.
434 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
435 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
436 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
438 2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
439 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
440 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
441 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
442 to debug builds.
443 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
444 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
445 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
446 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
447 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
448 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
449 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
450 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
451 problem.
452 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
453 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
454 * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
455 character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
456 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
457 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
458 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
459 * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
460 This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
461 Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
462 leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
463 * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
464 library.
465 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
466 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
467 bug.
469 2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
470 * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
471 * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
472 introduced.
473 * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
474 files in a directory and its subdirectories.
475 * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
476 Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
477 * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
478 X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
479 Specification'.
480 * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
481 email, using the `esmtp' library.
482 * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
483 such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
484 onewire bus.
485 * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
486 and fixed a possible dead-lock.
487 * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
488 plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
489 plugin_flush().
490 * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
491 * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
492 about or from a PostgreSQL database.
493 * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
494 * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
495 IO load.
496 * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
497 * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
498 using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
500 2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
501 * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
502 file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
503 installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
504 reporting this.
505 * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
506 Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
507 * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
508 * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
509 portability problems, especially for Solaris.
510 * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
511 * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
512 Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
513 much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
514 more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
515 `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
516 in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
517 this issue.
518 * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
519 once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
520 the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.
522 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
523 * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
524 dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
525 Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
526 to debug builds.
527 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
528 *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
529 leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
530 Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
531 * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
532 When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
533 possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
534 * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
535 problem.
536 * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
537 Linzberger for reporting the bug.
538 * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
539 code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
540 * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
541 * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
542 problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
543 bug.
545 2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
546 * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
547 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
548 descriptor leak.
549 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
550 * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.
552 2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
553 * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
554 * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
555 architecture collectd is being built on.
556 * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
557 of disks.
558 * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
559 through 19991005.
560 * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
561 cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
562 values under Solaris.
563 * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
564 * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
565 function.
566 * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
567 returned by some broken drivers.
569 2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
570 * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
571 to kyrone for reporting this.
572 * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
573 threshold checking.
574 * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
575 daemon.
576 * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
577 initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
578 * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
579 René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.
581 2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
582 * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
583 * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
584 exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
585 flush its values to disk.
586 * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
587 source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
588 for each data source.
589 * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
590 peer verification.
591 * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
592 page of an Ascent server.
593 * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
594 * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
595 specific disks has been added.
596 * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
597 * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
598 sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
599 interface.
600 * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
601 plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
602 provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
603 * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
604 authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
605 * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
606 configuration has been decreased.
607 * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
608 continuously reading from log files.
609 * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
610 TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
611 and number of channels.
612 * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
613 * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
614 about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.
616 2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
617 * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
618 library.
619 * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
620 reliable.
621 * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
622 * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
623 again has been applied.
624 * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
625 descriptor leak.
626 * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
627 * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
628 under Solaris.
629 * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
630 * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
631 * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
632 added.
634 2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
635 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
636 they are in non-standard paths.
637 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
638 if the libc expects it.
639 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
640 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
641 using them.
642 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
643 using a buffer of static size.
644 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
645 the program.
646 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
647 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
649 2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
650 * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
651 `Persist' threshold options.
652 * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
653 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
654 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
655 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
656 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
658 2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
659 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
660 * network plugin:
661 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
662 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
663 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
664 cross-platform compatibility.
665 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
666 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
667 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
669 2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
670 * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
671 are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
672 * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
673 means that you can configure threshold values for each data
674 instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
675 created.
676 * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
677 full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
678 es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
679 * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
680 This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
681 wants to add custom type definitions.
682 * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
683 entire directories and shell wildcards.
684 * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
685 terminates and automatically restarts it again.
686 * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
687 rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
688 * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
689 ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
690 * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
691 disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
692 * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
693 * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
694 domain name lookups in this plugin.
695 * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
696 threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
697 been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
698 Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
699 pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
700 * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
701 identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
702 may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
703 more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
704 Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
705 * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
706 CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
707 physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
708 Technology group for this plugin.
710 2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
711 * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
712 they are in non-standard paths.
713 * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
714 if the libc expects it.
715 * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
716 * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
717 using them.
718 * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
719 using a buffer of static size.
720 * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
721 the program.
722 * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
723 * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.
725 2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
726 * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
727 * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
728 * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
729 * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.
731 2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
732 * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
733 * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
734 * network plugin:
735 + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
736 and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
737 problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
738 overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
739 + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
740 alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
741 + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
742 cross-platform compatibility.
743 * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
744 * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
745 * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
746 * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.
748 2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
749 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
750 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
751 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
752 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
754 2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
755 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
756 of the libsensors library.
758 2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
759 * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
760 when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
761 this.
762 * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
763 incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
764 for fixing this.
766 2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
767 * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
768 enabled on the host.
769 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
771 2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
772 * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
773 configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
774 may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
775 definitions separate from the host definitions.
776 * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
777 (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
778 destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
779 * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
780 daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
781 system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
782 * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
783 nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
784 * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
785 config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
786 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
787 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
788 * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
789 correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
790 defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
791 is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
792 option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
793 * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
794 certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
795 to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
796 many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.
798 2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
799 * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
800 the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
801 Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
802 * collectd: The documentation has been improved.
804 2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
805 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
806 memory situations.
807 * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
808 of the libsensors library.
810 2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
811 * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
812 it's in a non-standard location.
813 * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
814 `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
815 * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
816 * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
817 a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
818 * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.
820 2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
821 * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
822 data types.
823 * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
824 be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
826 2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
827 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
828 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
829 noise quality as percentage.
830 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
831 * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
832 * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
833 includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
834 * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
835 support for the `timeticks' type.
837 2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
838 * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
839 * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
840 * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
841 fixed.
842 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
843 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
844 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
845 fails.
846 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
847 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
848 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
849 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
851 2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
852 * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
853 disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
854 checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
855 redundancy.
856 * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
857 with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
858 of server and clients no longer needs to match.
859 * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
860 kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
861 interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
862 * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
863 to not block data collection.
864 * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
865 network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
866 monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
867 plugin.
868 * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
869 * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
870 of music played with xmms.
872 2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
873 * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
874 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
875 noise quality as percentage.
876 * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
878 2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
879 * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
880 with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
881 * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
882 fails.
883 * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
884 has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
885 * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
886 whatever the client thinks is `now'..
888 2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
889 * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
890 been improved.
891 * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
892 such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
893 `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
894 * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
895 (i. e. without quotes).
896 * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
897 libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
898 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
900 2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
901 * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
902 instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
903 told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
904 documentation.
905 * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
906 configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
907 * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
908 updated.
910 2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
911 * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.
913 2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
914 * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
915 * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
916 * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
917 * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
918 * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
919 * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.
921 2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
922 * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
923 * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
924 * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
925 initialized correctly.
926 * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.
928 2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
929 * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
930 they're given in numerically form.
932 2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
933 * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
934 Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
935 segmentation fault.
937 2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
938 * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
939 more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
940 * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
941 parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
942 thread-safe functions from now on.
943 * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
944 of the configuration file and exit immediately.
945 * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
946 values'-files.
947 * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
948 RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
949 write to increase IO-performance.
950 * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
951 It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
952 combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
953 packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
954 with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
955 networks.
956 * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
957 communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
958 commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
959 come.
960 * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
961 for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
962 * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
963 or STDOUT or STDERR.
964 * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
965 system's syslog daemon.
966 * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
967 entropy currently being available to the system.
968 * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
969 back values provided by the forked processes.
970 * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
971 iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
972 plugin.
973 * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
974 to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
975 * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
976 ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
977 * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
978 connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
979 * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
980 from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
981 * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.
983 2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
984 * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
985 noise quality as percentage.
987 2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
988 * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.
990 2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
991 * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
992 * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
993 * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
994 were accounted as `zombies'.
996 2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
997 * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
998 under FreeBSD.
1000 2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
1001 * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
1002 of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.
1004 2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
1005 * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
1006 NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
1007 segfault with some libcs.
1009 2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
1010 * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
1011 under Solaris again.
1012 * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
1013 non-GNU libcs.
1014 * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
1015 compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.
1017 2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
1018 * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
1019 distributors to change the location of PID-files.
1020 * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
1021 write init.d-scripts for it.
1022 * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
1023 caused problems every now and then.
1024 * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
1025 filesystem types or devices.
1026 * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
1027 and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
1028 rcode counts.
1029 * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
1030 counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
1031 score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
1032 * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
1033 uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
1034 * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
1035 processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
1036 segment size and pagefaults.
1037 * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
1038 queries multimeters.
1039 * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
1040 plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
1041 and the possibility to ignore certain values.
1043 2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
1044 * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
1045 opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
1046 an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.
1048 2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
1049 * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
1050 ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
1051 calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
1052 freed memory.
1054 2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
1055 * The sample config file has been improved.
1056 * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
1057 * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
1058 startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
1059 available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
1060 available.
1061 * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
1062 * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
1063 * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
1064 plugin.
1065 * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
1066 during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.
1068 2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
1069 * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
1070 the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
1071 eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.
1073 2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
1074 * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
1075 * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
1076 * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
1077 statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
1078 * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
1079 to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
1080 with a test environment :)
1081 * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
1082 has been added.
1084 2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
1085 * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
1086 the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
1087 working this out.
1088 * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
1089 * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
1090 uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.
1092 2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
1093 * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
1094 operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
1095 check that.
1096 * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
1097 and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.
1099 2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
1100 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1101 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1102 approximately 7.6 days.
1104 2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
1105 * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
1106 sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
1107 approximately 7.6 days.
1109 2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
1110 * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
1111 resolved.
1112 * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
1113 been resolved.
1114 * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.
1116 2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
1117 * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
1118 <http://httpd.apache.org/>
1119 * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
1120 <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
1121 this plugin :)
1122 * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
1123 strength, link quality and noise ratio..
1124 * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
1125 * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
1126 settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
1127 calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
1128 * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
1129 * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
1130 added.
1131 * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
1132 ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
1133 * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
1134 the data into text files rather than RRD files.
1136 2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
1137 * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
1138 resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.
1140 2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
1141 * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
1142 with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.
1144 2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
1145 * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
1146 the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
1147 `/etc/mtab'.
1149 2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
1150 * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
1151 * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.
1153 2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
1154 * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
1155 library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
1156 multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.
1158 2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
1159 * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
1160 work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
1161 fixing this.
1162 * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
1163 Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.
1165 2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
1166 * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
1167 of glibc.
1168 * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
1169 to Tommie Gannert for this patch.
1171 2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
1172 * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
1173 laptop batteries..
1174 * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
1175 files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
1176 * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
1177 read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
1178 to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
1179 * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
1180 address and/or port than localhost.
1181 * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
1182 * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
1183 and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
1184 be set in the configfile.
1186 2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
1187 * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
1188 client mode. This released fixes this.
1190 2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
1191 * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
1192 linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
1193 release.
1195 2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
1196 * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
1197 plugins.
1198 * A `df' plugin has been added.
1199 * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
1200 * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
1201 occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.
1203 2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
1204 * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
1205 * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
1206 from 3.6.0).
1208 2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
1209 * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
1210 * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.
1212 2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
1213 * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
1214 * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
1215 currently logged in users.
1216 * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
1217 `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
1218 * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
1219 depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.
1221 2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
1222 * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
1223 from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
1224 * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
1225 without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
1226 with the `-c' argument.
1227 * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
1228 * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
1229 (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
1230 Barcellos for this patch.
1232 2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
1233 * New modules have been added:
1234 - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
1235 - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
1236 - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
1237 * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.
1239 2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
1240 * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
1241 Vincent)
1242 * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
1243 between polls up to one day.
1244 * The init.d files have been improved.
1245 * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.
1247 2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
1248 * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
1249 * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)
1251 2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
1252 * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
1253 multicast) has been added.
1254 * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
1255 runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
1256 to be linked against an external library.
1257 * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
1258 behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.
1260 2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
1261 * A module for swap statistics has been added.
1263 2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
1264 * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
1265 options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
1266 * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
1267 Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'.
1268 * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
1269 * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
1270 is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
1271 * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
1272 cleanly.
1274 2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
1275 * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
1276 disabled.
1277 * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.
1279 2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
1280 * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.
1282 2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
1283 * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
1284 traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
1285 libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
1286 authors.
1287 * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
1288 aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
1289 [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
1291 2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
1292 * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
1293 collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
1294 * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
1295 * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
1296 * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
1297 statistics will not work.
1299 2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
1300 * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
1301 weird strings as disk-names..
1303 2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
1304 * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
1305 about the disks and partitions.
1307 2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
1308 * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
1309 and/or kernel versions.
1311 2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
1312 * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
1313 forgot to correct when I changed that module.
1315 2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
1316 * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
1317 * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available
1319 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
1320 * Collecting CPU statistics now
1322 2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
1323 * collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
1324 and the like..
1325 * The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
1327 2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
1328 * Nothing really useful to say ;)
1330 2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
1331 * The following modules are provided:
1332 * Load average
1333 * Ping time
1334 * Traffic
1335 * Memory info