Merge branch 'collectd-4.10' into collectd-5.0

[collectd.git] / ChangeLog

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 changes 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.

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.
        * collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
          Díaz for fixing this bug.
        * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
          code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
        * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
          for reporting the bug.
        * ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.

2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
        * Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
          details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
          libtool 2.2 has been added.
        * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
          first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
          caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
          J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
        * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
          fixed.
        * rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
          resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
          Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
        * java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
          ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
          this out.
        * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
          to Doug MacEachern for the patch.

2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
        * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
          Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
        * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
          improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
        * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
          tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
        * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
          Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
          Konetzko for the patch.
        * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
          multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
        * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
          making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
        * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
          memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
          Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
        * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
          has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
        * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
          added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
        * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
          Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
        * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
        * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
          Quiédeville for the patch.
        * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
          has been added.
        * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
          about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
        * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
          plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
        * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
          structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
        * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
          from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
          plugin.
        * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
          information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
        * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
          deviation of round-trip times has been added.
        * 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.
        * collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
          code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
        * memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
          for reporting the bug.

2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
        * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
          OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
          for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
          Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
          providing an OpenBSD system.
        * collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
          first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
          caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
          J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
        * collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
          fixed.
        * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
          interval.
        * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
          Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
        * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
          Tomasz Pala for the patch.
        * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
          the patch.
        * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
        * swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
          to Doug MacEachern for the patch.

2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
        * collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
        * filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.
        * liboping: A patch to comply with strict aliasing rules has been
          added.
        * timediff match: Fix a typo: The match was registered with a wrong
          name which prevented this match to be used as documented. Thanks to
          Bruno Prémont for finding this problem.
        * bind plugin: Fix collection of the cached RR sets. The number of RR
          sets currently in the cache was collected as a counter value, which
          is nonsense. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for implementing this.
        * dns plugin: Don't pass NULL to `pcap_open_live': Some systems,
          primarily BSDs, don't take it well and crash.
        * oracle plugin: Portability to 64 bit systems has been improved.
        * postgresql plugin: The default configuration has been improved.
        * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
          is brought and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
          initialized, the daemon may crash.

2009-02-22, Version 4.6.1
        * collectd: Many documentation fixes.
        * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
        * regex match: Don't link with the PCRE library.
        * bind plugin: Various bugs have been fixed. Thanks to Bruno Prémont
          for finding and fixing most of them.
        * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
          faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.

2009-02-16, Version 4.6.0
        * collectd: Added the `filter chain' infrastructure, which allows the
          user to use `matches' and `targets' to control value processing.
        * collectd: The new `-T' command line argument allows more in-depth
          testing of a configuration. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
        * collectd-nagios: The Nagios integration command has been updated to
          use libcollectdclient. The `percentage' aggregation function has
          been added. Thanks to Fabian Linzberger for the patch.
        * libcollectdclient: A library which abstracts communication with the
          unixsock plugin for clients has been added.
        * regex match: Match values by their identifies using regular
          expressions.
        * timediff match: Match for values with an invalid timestamp.
        * value match: Select values by their data sources' values.
        * notification target: Create and dispatch a notification.
        * replace target: Replace parts of an identifier using regular
          expressions.
        * set target: Set (overwrite) entire parts of an identifier.
        * bind plugin: This new plugin uses the new HTTP/XML interface to BIND
          statistics, allowing very detailed name server statistics. Thanks to
          Bruno Prémont for this plugin.
        * cpu plugin: Report `interrupt' separately when using
          sysctlbyname(3) (used under *BSD). Support for sysctl(3), for
          example for native OpenBSD support, has been added. Thanks to Simon
          Kuhnle for the patch.
        * csv plugin: Make it possible to write values to STDOUT instead of
          files. This is meant for testing purposes mostly. The output written
          to STDOUT is compatible with the exec plugin. Thanks to Doug
          MacEachern for the patch.
        * curl plugin: This new plugin can be used to read web pages and parse
          them using the same mechanism that's used in the tail plugin.
        * dbi plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to a variety of
          relational databases and use SQL to gather custom statistics from
          it. It is similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin but uses
          libdbi to communicate with the database(s).
        * interface plugin: Use the ignorelist framework when selecting /
          ignoring interfaces. This allows one to use regular expressions to
          select interfaces, too.
        * ipmi plugin: Handle temporary IPMI error conditions more gracefully.
          Thanks to Bruno Prémont for this patch.
        * memcached plugin: Add hit-ratio metric. Thanks to Doug MacEachern
          for the patch.
        * mysql plugin: Allow connecting to a database via the UNIX domain
          socket, too. Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
        * network plugin: Further performance improvements for the receive
          code. This hopefully will help very large setups.
        * openvpn plugin: This new plugin collects statistics provided by the
          OpenVPN daemon. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
        * oracle plugin: This new plugin allows you to connect to an Oracle
          database and use SQL to gather custom statistics from it. It is
          similar to the already existing PostgreSQL plugin.
        * perl plugin: Compatibility fixes for broken versions of Perl 5.10
          have been added.
        * perl plugin: Export the newly added plugin_write() to Perl plugins.
        * perl plugin: Added support for `notification meta data'.
        * perl plugin: Added support for the `filter chain' infrastructure by
          allowing plugins to register `matches' and `targets'.
        * postgresql plugin: The preferred configuration syntax has been
          updated to be in line with the syntax used by the new dbi and oracle
          plugins. The compatibility code for the old syntax is present.
          Support for the new `Result' blocks and the interval parameter has
          been added.
        * processes plugin: Stacksize and virtual memory usage statistics have
          been added. Portability fixes.
        * rrdcached plugin: This new plugin uses the (still in development)
          RRD accelerator daemon, rrdcached. This daemon works very similar to
          the original rrdtool plugin of collectd, but adds some more nice
          features.
        * swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
          added.

2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
        * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
          OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
          for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
          Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
          providing an OpenBSD system.
        * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
        * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
          interval.
        * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
        * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
          Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
        * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
          Tomasz Pala for the patch.
        * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
          the patch.
        * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
          is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
          initialized, the daemon may crash.
        * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.

2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
        * build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
          not available.
        * collectd: Fix error handling in the global cache.
        * Collectd::Unixsock: Error handling has been improved.
        * ascent plugin: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for his
          patch.
        * ipmi plugin: Fix an off-by-one error which could cause segmentation
          faults. Thanks to Peter Holik for his patch.
        * tcpconns plugin: An endianness problem has been fixed in the *BSD
          code. Thanks to "thated" for reporting this.

2009-01-02, Version 4.5.2
        * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
          file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
          installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
          reporting this.
        * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
          Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
        * build system, tcpconns plugin: Check for `kvm_nlist' and
          `kvm_openfiles' before enabling the plugin: Solaris provides a KVM
          library with similar functions to the BSD variant, but doesn't
          provide these necessary functions.
        * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
        * collectd: Remove a GNUism (unnamed unions), thus improving
          portability.
        * collectd, apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>.
          This solves portability problems, especially for Solaris.
        * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
        * filecount plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. This error may cause a
          segmentation fault.
        * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
          Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
          much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
          more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
          `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
          in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
          this issue.
        * processes plugin: Fix a possible segmentation fault when specifying
          invalid configuration options.
        * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
          once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
          the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.

2008-10-16, Version 4.5.1
        * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
          dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
          Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
          to debug builds.
        * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
          *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
          leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
          Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
        * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
          When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
          possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
        * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
          problem.
        * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
          Linzberger for reporting the bug.
        * iptables plugin: Fix an off-by-one error. If a string was just one
          character too long, it was truncated instead of reporting an error.
        * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
          code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
        * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
        * postgresql plugin: Don't reopen connection during reinitialization.
          This fixes a bug under Solaris and potentially other platforms.
          Missing calls to `PQclear' have been added, too. This fixes memory
          leaks. Thanks to ``Admin'' for reporting these bugs.
        * snmp plugin: Don't expect null-terminated strings from the Net-SNMP
          library.
        * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
          problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
          bug.

2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
        * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
        * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
          introduced.
        * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
          files in a directory and its subdirectories.
        * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
          Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
        * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
          X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
          Specification'.
        * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
          email, using the `esmtp' library.
        * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
          such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
          onewire bus.
        * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
          and fixed a possible dead-lock.
        * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
          plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
          plugin_flush().
        * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
        * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
          about or from a PostgreSQL database.
        * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
        * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
          IO load.
        * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
        * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
          using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.

2009-01-02, Version 4.4.5
        * build system: Check for `mysql.h' and `mysql/mysql.h', since the
          file may be in both locations, especially when the database was
          installed in a non-standard path. Thanks to Dusty Doris for
          reporting this.
        * build system: Handle the _POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS defined, needed by
          Solaris, in the configure script automatically.
        * collectd.conf(5): Various fixes and clarifications.
        * apcups plugin: Include "collectd.h" before <stdlib.h>. This solves
          portability problems, especially for Solaris.
        * dns plugin: Fix a portability problem with NetBSD.
        * network plugin: Fix the handling of `type' in the network protocol.
          Due to a programming mistake, only 4 or 8 bytes would be copied to a
          much larger buffer. This caused the `type' to be transferred much
          more often than necessary. In some cases, e. g. the `cpu' and
          `cpufreq' plugins being used at the same time, data may be corrupted
          in those files. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for debugging and reporting
          this issue.
        * unixsock plugin: Make sure the initialization function is run only
          once. This resolves a file descriptor leak under systems which run
          the initialization more than once, such as Solaris.

2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
        * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
          dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
          Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
          to debug builds.
        * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
          *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
          leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
          Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
        * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
          When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
          possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
        * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
          problem.
        * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
          Linzberger for reporting the bug.
        * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
          code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
        * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
        * tail plugin: Call `clearerr(3)' after reading an EOF. This fixes
          problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
          bug.

2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
        * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
        * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
          descriptor leak.
        * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
        * snmp plugin: Fix a possible memory leak.

2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
        * build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
        * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
          architecture collectd is being built on.
        * disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
          of disks.
        * dns plugin: Fix compilation errors with BIND versions 19991001
          through 19991005.
        * network plugin: Bugfix in the init routine: The init function
          cleared a buffer regardless of its contents. This could lead to lost
          values under Solaris.
        * nginx plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `strtok' function.
        * vserver plugin: Remove usage of the thread-unsafe `readdir'
          function.
        * wireless plugin: Work around incorrect noise and power values
          returned by some broken drivers.

2008-06-03, Version 4.4.1
        * collectd: Fix the `DataSource' option within `Type' blocks. Thanks
          to kyrone for reporting this.
        * collectd: Fixed min/max output in notifications generated by
          threshold checking.
        * collectd-nagios: Fix the protocol used to communicate with the
          daemon.
        * perl plugin: Fail noisily, but don't shutdown the daemon, if
          initialization has errors. An issue with Perl 5.10 has been fixed.
        * teamspeak2 plugin: Fixed an out of bound array access. Thanks to
          René Rebe and Siegmund Gorr for reporting this.

2008-05-06, Version 4.4.0
        * collectd: Internal code cleanups.
        * collectd: Added support for a `Flush' command in the unixsock and
          exec plugins. This command can be used to force a plugin (or all) to
          flush its values to disk.
        * collectd: Thresholds can now be configured to apply to one data
          source only, making it possible to configure different thresholds
          for each data source.
        * apache, nginx plugins: Added the possibility to disable host and/or
          peer verification.
        * ascent plugin: The new ascent plugin reads and parses the statistics
          page of an Ascent server.
        * cpu plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
        * disk plugin: The possibility to ignore certain disks or collect only
          specific disks has been added.
        * disk plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
        * ipmi plugin: The new ipmi plugin uses the OpenIPMI library to read
          sensor values via IPMI, the intelligent platform management
          interface.
        * iptables plugin: The iptc library that is used by the iptables
          plugin has been added to the distribution, because it is not
          provided by all distributions and removed from at least one.
        * powerdns plugin: The new powerdns plugin reads statistics from an
          authoritative or a recursing PowerDNS name server.
        * rrdtool plugin: The size of the files generated with the default
          configuration has been decreased.
        * tail plugin: The new tail plugin can be used to gather statistics by
          continuously reading from log files.
        * teamspeak2 plugin: The new teamspeak2 plugin connects to a
          TeamSpeak2 server and collects statistics about the number of users
          and number of channels.
        * users plugin: Support for the statgrab library has been added.
        * vmem plugin: The new vmem plugin collects very detailed statistics
          about the virtual memory subsystem of Linux.

2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
        * Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
          library.
        * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
          reliable.
        * Various plugins: Fix format strings.
        * disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
          again has been applied.
        * memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file
          descriptor leak.
        * memory plugin: A typo in the libstatgrab code has been fixed.
        * network plugin: A fix in the initialization function solves problems
          under Solaris.
        * nginx plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
        * vserver plugin: A thread-unsafe function has been replaced.
        * wireless plugin: A work-around for broken wireless drivers has been
          added.

2008-04-22, Version 4.3.3
        * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
          they are in non-standard paths.
        * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
          if the libc expects it.
        * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
        * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
          using them.
        * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
          using a buffer of static size.
        * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
          the program.
        * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
        * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.

2008-03-29, Version 4.3.2
        * collectd: Fix configuration of the `FailureMax', `WarningMax', and
          `Persist' threshold options.
        * collectd: Fix handling of missing values in the global value cache.
        * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
        * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
        * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
        * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.

2008-03-05, Version 4.3.1
        * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
        * network plugin:
          + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
            alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
          + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
            cross-platform compatibility.
        * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
        * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
        * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.

2008-02-18, Version 4.3.0
        * collectd: Notifications have been added to the daemon. Notifications
          are status messages that may be associated with a data instance.
        * collectd: Threshold checking has been added to the daemon. This
          means that you can configure threshold values for each data
          instance. If this threshold is exceeded a notification will be
          created.
        * collectd: The new `FQDNLookup' option tells the daemon to use the
          full qualified domain name as the hostname, not just the host part
          es returned by `gethostname(2)'.
        * collectd: Support for more than one `TypesDB' file has been added.
          This is useful when one such file is included in a package but one
          wants to add custom type definitions.
        * collectd: The `Include' config option has been expanded to handle
          entire directories and shell wildcards.
        * collectdmon: The new `collectdmon' binary detects when collectd
          terminates and automatically restarts it again.
        * csv plugin: The CSV plugin is now able to store counter values as a
          rate, using the `StoreRates' configuration option.
        * exec plugin: Handling of notifications has been added and the
          ability to pass arguments to the executed programs has been added.
        * hddtemp plugin: The new `TranslateDevicename' option lets you
          disable the translation from device names to major-minor-numbers.
        * logfile plugin: Handling of notifications has been added.
        * ntpd plugin: The new `ReverseLookups' can be used to disable reverse
          domain name lookups in this plugin.
        * perl plugin: Many internal changes added support for handling multiple
          threads making the plugin reasonably usable inside collectd. The API has
          been extended to support notifications and export global variables to
          Perl plugins; callbacks now have to be identified by name rather than a
          pointer to a subroutine. The plugin is no longer experimental.
        * uuid plugin: The new UUID plugin sets the hostname to an unique
          identifier for this host. This is meant for setups where each client
          may migrate to another physical host, possibly going through one or
          more name changes in the process. Thanks to Richard Jones from
          Red Hat's Emerging Technology group for this plugin.
        * libvirt: The new libvirt plugin uses the `libvirt' library to query
          CPU, disk and network statistics about guest systems on the same
          physical server. Thanks to Richard Jones from Red Hat's Emerging
          Technology group for this plugin.

2008-04-22, Version 4.2.7
        * build system: Improved detection of several libraries, especially if
          they are in non-standard paths.
        * build system: Portability fixes: Automatically define "_REENTRANT"
          if the libc expects it.
        * collectd: Error and warning messages have been improved.
        * collectd: Check for the BYTE_ORDER and BIG_ENDIAN defines before
          using them.
        * apache plugin: Allocate new memory when reading a webpage instead of
          using a buffer of static size.
        * exec plugin: Close (almost) all filedescriptors before exec(2)ing
          the program.
        * hddtemp plugin: Error and warning messages have been improved.
        * sensors plugin: Fix sensor collection for some chip types.

2008-03-29, Version 4.2.6
        * collectd: Improved error messages when parsing the configuration.
        * sensors plugin: Fix temperature collection with libsensors4.
        * unixsock plugin: Fix mixed input and output operation on streams.
        * wireless plugin: Fix reading noise value.

2008-03-04, Version 4.2.5
        * apache plugin: Improved initialization and error messages.
        * exec plugin: Set supplementary group IDs.
        * network plugin:
          + Create separate threads for reading from the socket and parsing
            and dispatching incoming packets. Versions prior to this may have
            problems in high-load situations, where the socket receive buffers
            overflows, resulting in gaps in the data.
          + Use `memcpy' when constructing/parsing a package to avoid
            alignment problems on weird architectures, such as Sparc.
          + Translate doubles to/from the x86 byte representation to ensure
            cross-platform compatibility.
        * ping plugin: Correct the handling of the `TTL' setting.
        * rrdtool plugin: Ensure correct handling of the `RRATimespan' option.
        * swap plugin: Reapply a patch for Solaris.
        * tcpconns plugin: Portability improvements.

2008-01-21, Version 4.2.4
        * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
          the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
          Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
        * collectd: The documentation has been improved.

2007-12-28, Version 4.2.3
        * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
          of the libsensors library.

2007-12-15, Version 4.2.2
        * nginx plugin: Incorrect comparison of strings lead to a segfault
          when using the plugin. Thanks to Saulius Grigaliunas for fixing
          this.
        * logfile plugin: The config option `Timestamp' was handled
          incorrectly and basically always active. Thanks to Luke Heberling
          for fixing this.

2007-11-08, Version 4.2.1
        * tcpconns plugin: Don't complain about a missing file if IPv6 is not
          enabled on the host.
        * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.

2007-10-27, Version 4.2.0
        * collectd: The new config option `Include' lets you include other
          configfiles and thus split up your config into smaller parts. This
          may be especially interesting for the snmp plugin to keep the data
          definitions separate from the host definitions.
        * ipvs plugin: The new `ipvs' plugin collects IPVS connection statistics
          (number of connections, octets and packets for each service and
          destination). Thanks to Sebastian Harl for this plugin.
        * memcached plugin: The new `memcached' plugin connects to a memcached
          daemon process and collects statistics of this distributed caching
          system. Thanks to Antony Dovgal for contributing this plugin.
        * nginx plugin: The new `nginx' plugin reads the status page of an
          nginx daemon and saves the handled connections and requests.
        * perl plugin: Many changes, including the added `EnableDebugger'
          config option which lets you debug your Perl plugins more easily.
        * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
          be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.
        * snmp plugin: Added the options `Scale' and `Shift' to Data-blocks to
          correct the values returned by SNMP-agents. If a <data> block is
          defined as `table' the instance is now optional. The sequence number
          is used as the type-instance in this case. The new `InstancePrefix'
          option allows to add arbitrary prefixes to the type-instance.
        * tcpconns plugin: The new `tcpconns' plugin collects the number of
          certain TCP connections and what state they're in. This can be used
          to see how many connections your FTP server has to handle or how
          many outgoing connections your mailserver has open.

2008-01-11, Version 4.1.6
        * unixsock plugin: A bug in the unixsock plugin caused it not to set
          the permission on the socket as documented in the manpage. Thanks to
          Evgeny Chukreev for fixing this issue.
        * collectd: The documentation has been improved.

2007-12-27, Version 4.1.5
        * rrdtool plugin: Fix a memory leak that only occurred in very-low-
          memory situations.
        * sensors plugin: Updated the plugin to build and work with version 3
          of the libsensors library.

2007-11-08, Version 4.1.4
        * Build system: Improve detection of the rrd library, especially if
          it's in a non-standard location.
        * Build system: A bug when parsing the argument for
          `--with-libnetsnmp' has been fixed.
        * collectd: Implement `strerror_r' if the libc doesn't provide it.
        * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug in the shutdown sequence that might cause
          a deadlock or delay when shutting down the daemon.
        * snmp plugin: Fix a memory leak.

2007-10-24, Version 4.1.3
        * collectd: A build issue under Solaris has been resolved by renaming
          data types.
        * rrdtool plugin: Use the thread-safe RRD-library if available. Try to
          be more thread-safe otherwise by locking calls to the library.

2007-09-28, Version 4.1.2
        * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
        * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
          noise quality as percentage.
        * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().
        * build system: Further improve the detection of libraries.
        * netlink plugin: Build issues under some older versions of the Linux
          includes (i. e. Debian Sarge) have been fixed.
        * snmp plugin: Fix a potential segfault when a host times out. Add
          support for the `timeticks' type. 

2007-09-12, Version 4.1.1
        * Build system: The detection of `libnetlink' has been improved.
        * collectd: The documentation has been fixed in numerous places.
        * exec plugin: Setting the group under which to run a program has been
          fixed.
        * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
          with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
        * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
          fails.
        * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
          has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
        * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
          whatever the client thinks is `now'..

2007-09-01, Version 4.1.0
        * Build system: The build system has been changed to automatically
          disable all plugins, which are missing dependencies. The dependency
          checking has been removed from the plugins themselves to remove
          redundancy.
        * Flexible interval: The interval of collected data is now sent along
          with the data itself over the network, so that the interval-settings
          of server and clients no longer needs to match.
        * netlink plugin: The new `netlink' plugin connects to the Linux
          kernel using a netlink socket and uses it to query information about
          interfaces, qdiscs and classes.
        * rrdtool plugin: The cache is now dumped to disk in an extra thread
          to not block data collection.
        * snmp plugin: The new `snmp' plugin can read values from SNMP enabled
          network devices, such as switches, routers, thermometers, rack
          monitoring servers, etc. The collectd-snmp(5) manpage documents this
          plugin.
        * unixsock plugin: Added the `LISTVAL' command.
        * xmms plugin: The new `xmms' plugin graphs the bitrate and frequency
          of music played with xmms.

2007-09-28, Version 4.0.9
        * apcups plugin: Fix reporting of the `load percent' data.
        * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
          noise quality as percentage.
        * perl plugin: Fix a possible buffer overflow in get_module_name().

2007-09-12, Version 4.0.8
        * collectd: The `sstrerror' function was improved to work correctly
          with the broken GNU version of `strerror_r'.
        * collectd: Write an error message to STDERR when loading of a plugin
          fails.
        * apcups plugin: Fix the `types' used to submit the values: They still
          has an `apcups_' prefix which doesn't work anymore.
        * rrdtool plugin: Create new RRD-files with the `begin' time set to
          whatever the client thinks is `now'..

2007-08-26, Version 4.0.7
        * documentation: Some typos have been fixed and some information has
          been improved.
        * build system: Many fixes for detecting libraries in unusual places,
          such as on RedHat systems. The affected libraries are `libcurl',
          `libmysql', and `libupsclient'.
        * network plugin: Allow the `Port' option to be specified as a number
          (i. e. without quotes).
        * nut plugin: A fix allows linking the nut plugin against
          libupsclient, version >= 2.2.0.
        * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.

2007-07-30, Version 4.0.6
        * sensors plugin: Fix the ignorelist functionality: Only the `type
          instance' was used to match against the list, but the documentation
          told otherwise. This release fixes the code, so it complies with the
          documentation.
        * syslog plugin: Call `openlog' right when the plugin is loaded, so
          configuration messages will end up in the logging facility.
        * conrtib/fedora: The contributed specfile for Fedora has been
          updated.

2007-07-05, Version 4.0.5
        * Portability: More fixes for OpenBSD have been included.

2007-06-24, Version 4.0.4
        * cpu plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
        * dns plugin: Fixed a build issue for OpenBSD.
        * interface plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
        * load plugin: Fixed the alternative `/proc' Linux code.
        * memory plugin: Fixed the Solaris code.
        * oconfig: Don't require `-lfl' anymore.

2007-06-19, Version 4.0.3
        * cpu plugin: Fix the Darwin / Mac OS X code.
        * ping plugin: Use the return value of `getpid', not its address.
        * csv, rrdtool plugin: Fixed a bug that prevented an buffer to be
          initialized correctly.
        * configure: Added `--with-nan-emulation' to aid cross compilation.

2007-06-12, Version 4.0.2
        * hddtemp and ntpd plugin: Corrected the parsing of port numbers when
          they're given in numerically form.

2007-06-07, Version 4.0.1
        * iptables plugin: A bug in the configuration routine has been fixed.
          Setting a comment in the configfile will no longer cause a
          segmentation fault.

2007-06-03, Version 4.0.0
        * collectd: The plugin-infrastructure has been changed to allow for
          more types of plugins, namely `write' and `log' plugins.
        * collectd: The read-function has been changed to read many plugins in
          parallel, using threads. Thus, plugins generally need to use
          thread-safe functions from now on.
        * collectd: The '-t' command line options allows to perform syntax tests
          of the configuration file and exit immediately.
        * csv plugin: The new `csv' plugin handles output to `comma separated
          values'-files.
        * rrdtool plugin: The new `rrdtool' plugin handles output to
          RRD-files. Data can be cached to combine multiple updates into one
          write to increase IO-performance.
        * network plugin: The new `network' plugin handles IO via the network.
          It implements a different, much more extensible protocol which can
          combine many values in one packet, decreasing the number of UDP-
          packets being sent. It can read from and send to the network and
          with the appropriate configuration even forward packets to other
          networks.
        * unixsock plugin: The new `unixsock' plugin provides an interface to
          communicate with the daemon while it is running. Right now the
          commands `GETVAL' and `PUTVAL' are implemented, but more are to
          come.
        * perl plugin: The new `perl' plugin allows you to write extensions
          for collectd in the scripting-language Perl.
        * logfile plugin: The new `logfile' plugin writes logmessages to files
          or STDOUT or STDERR.
        * syslog plugin: The new `syslog' plugin sends logmessages to the
          system's syslog daemon.
        * entropy plugin: The new `entropy' plugin collects the amount of
          entropy currently being available to the system.
        * exec plugin: The new `exec' plugin forks child processes and reads
          back values provided by the forked processes.
        * iptables plugin: The new `iptables' plugin reads counters from
          iptables rules. Thanks to Sjoerd van der Berg for contributing this
          plugin.
        * irq plugin: The new `irq' plugin collects the IRQ-counters. Thanks
          to Peter Holik for contributing this plugin.
        * nut plugin: The new `nut' plugin connects the upsd of the `network
          ups tools' and reads information about the connected UPS.
        * apache plugin: Support for lighttpd's `BusyServers' (aka.
          connections) field was added by Florent Monbillard.
        * collectd-nagios: The new `collectd-nagios' binary queries values
          from collectd, parses them and exits according to Nagios-standards.
        * manpages: The manpages have been improved a lot.

2007-09-28, Version 3.11.7
        * wireless plugin: Correct the handling of cards returning signal and
          noise quality as percentage.

2007-08-31, Version 3.11.6
        * processes plugin: Fix a potential segmentation fault.

2007-05-29, Version 3.11.5
        * configure: Added `AC_SYS_LARGEFILE' for LFS.
        * ntpd plugin: Fix a potential buffer overflow.
        * processes plugin: Fix a bug when run under Linux 2.4. All processes
          were accounted as `zombies'.

2007-04-10, Version 3.11.4
        * dns plugin: Change the order of includes to make the plugin compile
          under FreeBSD.

2007-03-30, Version 3.11.3
        * configure: Have the configure-script define `HAVE_LIBKSTAT' instead
          of the unused `COLLECT_KSTAT'.

2007-02-11, Version 3.11.2
        * plugin: Catch NULL-pointer and try to fix them. Otherwise the
          NULL-pointer may have been passed to `printf' which causes a
          segfault with some libcs.

2007-02-10, Version 3.11.1
        * df plugin: Some wrong defines have been fixed so the plugin works
          under Solaris again.
        * dns plugin: The usage of a struct has been fixed to work with
          non-GNU libcs.
        * processes plugin: Some missing defines have been added so the plugin
          compiles cleanly under FreeBSD and presumably other UNIXes.

2006-12-22, Version 3.11.0
        * collectd: The new command line option `-P' makes it easier for
          distributors to change the location of PID-files.
        * collectd: The daemon shuts down faster now which makes it easier to
          write init.d-scripts for it.
        * apache plugin: Increase the buffersize to 16k, because the 4k buffer
          caused problems every now and then.
        * df plugin: New config options allow to ignore certain mountpoints,
          filesystem types or devices.
        * dns plugin: The new dns plugin uses `libpcap' to capture DNS traffic
          and interprets it. It collects traffic as well as qtype, opcode and
          rcode counts.
        * email plugin: Sebastian Harl has contributed this plugin which
          counts received mails in categories (e. g. ham, spam, virus), spam
          score (as given by SpamAssassin) and check types.
        * mbmon plugin: Flavio Stanchina has contributed this plugin which
          uses `mbmon' to gather information from sensors on the motherboard.
        * processes plugin: Collect detailed statistics for configured
          processes, that's process and thread count, CPU usage, resident
          segment size and pagefaults.
        * multimeter plugin: Peter Holik contributed a new plugin which
          queries multimeters.
        * sensors plugin: Lubos Stanek has put much effort into improving this
          plugin, including `extended naming', collection of voltage values
          and the possibility to ignore certain values.

2006-12-21, Version 3.10.4
        * Max Kellermann has identified a bug in the server routine: When
          opening a socket fails the daemon will (re)try opening the socket in
          an endless loop, ultimately leading to a `EMFILE' error.

2006-11-04, Version 3.10.3
        * Lubos Stanek has identified a bug in the ntpd-plugin: When the
          ntpd's reply was sent in more than one packet, the buffer size was
          calculated incorrectly, resulting in the reading of uninitialized or
          freed memory.

2006-11-01, Version 3.10.2
        * The sample config file has been improved.
        * Errors in the manpages have been corrected.
        * The ping-plugin now adds hosts during initialization, not during
          startup. This speeds up startup when no network connectivity is
          available. Also, the hosts are being added later when the network is
          available.
        * Improved BSD-support for the df-plugin.
        * Fixed syntax errors in the swap-plugin for Mac OS X.
        * Fix a wrong structure being passed to `getnameinfo' in the ntpd-
          plugin.
        * Don't disable the mysql-plugin if connecting to the database fails
          during initialization. Instead, try again in increasing intervals.

2006-07-19, Version 3.10.1
        * A bug in the apcups plugin was fixed: Is the plugin is loaded, but
          the apcups cannot be reached, unconnected sockets will pile up and
          eventually lead to `Too many open files' errors.

2006-07-09, Version 3.10.0
        * The `disk' plugin has been ported to Darwin.
        * The `battery' plugin should work on many Apple computers now.
        * The `traffic' plugin can now ignore certain interfaces. Also,
          statistics for sent/received packets and errors have been added.
        * A plugin to monitor APC UPSes using `apcupsd' has been added. Thanks
          to Anthony Gialluca for contributing this plugin and providing me
          with a test environment :)
        * A plugin for monitoring an NTP instance and the local clock drift
          has been added.

2006-06-25, Version 3.9.4
        * The Solaris code in the `swap' plugin has been changed to reflect
          the numbers returned by `swap -s'. Thanks to Christophe Kalt for
          working this out.
        * The debugging system has been fixed to work with the Sun libc.
        * When built without librrd the variable `operating_mode' could be
          uninitialized. Thanks to David Elliot for reporting the bug.

2006-06-01, Version 3.9.3
        * Fixed the ping-plugin under FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Potentially other
          operating systems also profit from the changes, but I wasn't able to
          check that.
        * Changed the build system to find the netinet-includes under FreeBSD
          and therefore successfully build the `liboping' library there.

2006-05-09, Version 3.9.2
        * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
          sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
          approximately 7.6 days.

2006-05-09, Version 3.8.5
        * Applied a patch to the `liboping' library. Due to a bug in the
          sequence checking the `ping' plugin stopped working after
          approximately 7.6 days.

2006-04-21, Version 3.9.1
        * Build issues with Solaris and possible other architectures have been
          resolved.
        * Problems when building the `apache'-plugin without `libcurl' have
          been resolved.
        * A bug in the `ping' plugin has been fixed. Sorry folks.

2006-04-02, Version 3.9.0
        * A plugin to monitor the Apache webserver has been added.
          <http://httpd.apache.org/>
        * A plugin to collect statistics about virtual servers using VServer.
          <http://linux-vserver.org/> Thanks to Sebastian Harl for writing
          this plugin :)
        * A plugin for wireless LAN cards has been added. It monitors signal
          strength, link quality and noise ratio..
        * A plugin for Apple hardware sensors has been added.
        * An option to compile collectd with different `step' and `heartbeat'
          settings has been added. The size of RRAs is no longer static but
          calculated based on the settings for `step' and `width'.
        * The `ping' plugin can now be configured to use a certain TTL.
        * A plugin to monitor the hardware sensors of Apple computers has been
          added.
        * The plugins `cpu', `memory', `processes' and `traffic' have been
          ported to Mach/Darwin (Mac OS X).
        * The `log mode' has been contributed by Christophe Kalt. It writes
          the data into text files rather than RRD files.

2006-04-09, Version 3.8.4
        * Applied patch by Vincent Stehlé which improves the disk-name
          resolution in the `hddtemp' plugin for Linux systems.

2006-04-02, Version 3.8.3
        * Applied a patch by James Byers: The MySQL plugin was not working
          with MySQL 5.0.2 or later.

2006-03-14, Version 3.8.2
        * `utils_mount.c' has been changed to not use the `MNTTAB' defined by
          the GNU libc, because it points to `/etc/fstab' rather than
          `/etc/mtab'.

2006-03-13, Version 3.8.1
        * Fixes for building collectd under FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.
        * Fixes in the debian `postinst' and `init.d' scripts.

2006-03-09, Version 3.8.0
        * The `ping' plugin no longer uses `libping' but a self written
          library named `liboping'. With this library it's possible to ping
          multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and hostnames - in parallel.

2006-02-18, Version 3.7.2
        * A simple bug in the `battery' plugin has been fixed. It should now
          work with ACPI based batteries as well. Thanks to Sebastian for
          fixing this.
        * Fixing a bug that prevented collectd to be built without librrd.
          Thanks to Werner Heuser for reporting it.

2006-02-04, Version 3.7.1
        * The new network code has been improved to build with older versions
          of glibc.
        * Fix in `libping' sets the ICMP sequence on outgoing packets. Thanks
          to Tommie Gannert for this patch.

2006-01-30, Version 3.7.0
        * The `battery' plugin has been added. It collects information about
          laptop batteries..
        * The MySQL plugin has been improved: It now writes two more RRD
          files, `mysql_qcache.rrd' and `mysql_threads.rrd'.
        * The `cpufreq' plugin now reads another file since the file it did
          read so far causes much overhead in the kernel. Also, you need root
          to read the old file, but not to read the new one.
        * The `hddtemp' plugin can now be configured to connect to another
          address and/or port than localhost.
        * The `df' plugin now prefers `statvfs' over `statfs'.
        * The network code has been rewritten. collectd now supports unicast
          and multicast, and IPv4 and IPv6. Also, the TTL of sent packages can
          be set in the configfile.

2006-01-24, Version 3.6.2
        * Due to a bug in the configfile handling collectd wouldn't start in
          client mode. This released fixes this.

2006-01-20, Version 3.6.1
        * Due to a bug in `configure.in' all modules and the binary were
          linked against `libmysqlclient'. This issue is solved by this
          release.

2006-01-17, Version 3.6.0
        * A config file has been added. This allows for loading only specific
          plugins.
        * A `df' plugin has been added.
        * A `mysql' plugin has been added.
        * The `ping' plugin doesn't entirely give up hope when a socket error
          occurred, but will back of and increase the intervals between tries.

2006-01-21, Version 3.5.2
        * Fixed yet another bug in the signal handling.. Stupid typo..
        * Improved the ping plugin to not give up on socket errors (backport
          from 3.6.0).

2005-12-18, Version 3.5.1
        * The PID-file is now deleted correctly when shutting down the daemon.
        * SIGINT and SIGTERM are now handled correctly.

2005-12-16, Version 3.5.0 (Revision 326)
        * A bug in the `load' module under Solaris has been fixed.
        * The `users' module has been contributed by Sebastian Harl. It counts
          currently logged in users.
        * The CPU module now works under FreeBSD without the use of
          `libstatgrab', however SMP support is missing.
        * The default directories for the RRD files and the PID file now
          depend on the compile time setting of `localstatedir'.

2005-11-15, Version 3.4.0 (Revision 236)
        * A PID-file is written to /var/run upon startup. Thanks to `Tommie'
          from gentoo's bugzilla for writing the patch.
        * The build dependency for librrd has been removed. Binaries built
          without librrd are client-only and will multicast their value as
          with the `-c' argument.
        * A patch by Peter Holik adds a module for monitoring CPU frequencies.
        * The newly introduced `-f' switch prevents daemon initialization
          (forking, closing standard filehandles, etc.) Thanks to Alvaro
          Barcellos for this patch.

2005-11-04, Version 3.3.0 (Revision 216)
        * New modules have been added:
          - `serial', for monitoring traffic on the serial interfaces
          - `nfs', for graphing NFS procedure calls
          - `tape', traffic from/to tape devices
        * The memory.rrd now accepts more than 4Gig of memory.

2005-10-26, Version 3.2.0 (Revision 200)
        * Support for graphing the processes has been added (thanks to Lyonel
          Vincent)
        * If reading from hddtemp fails collectd will increase the time
          between polls up to one day.
        * The init.d files have been improved.
        * Problems with the spec file have been fixed.

2005-10-16, Version 3.1.0 (Revision 194)
        * Added the `setsid' syscall to the startup code.
        * Support for hddtemp has been added (thanks to Vincent Stehlé)

2005-09-30, Version 3.0.0 (Revision 184)
        * The ability to send/receive data to/from the network (think
          multicast) has been added.
        * Modules have been split up into shared libraries can be loaded at
          runtime. The biggest advantage is that the core program doesn't need
          to be linked against an external library.
        * A patch by George Kargiotakis has been applied: It fixes the sensors
          behaviour then more than one sensor is being queried.

2005-09-16, Version 2.1.0 (Revision 172)
        * A module for swap statistics has been added.

2005-09-09, Version 2.0.0 (Revision 135)
        * Filenames can no longer be configured at program startup. The only
          options as of this version are the directory and ping hosts.
        * CPU statistics now include Wait-IO. If provided under Linux IRQ and
          Soft-IRQ statistics are added to `System'. 
        * Diskstats now collect read and write bytes, not sectors.
        * Ping statistics can now be collected for more than one host. There
          is no default any more: If no host is given no host will be pinged.
        * A self-written patch for libping has been applied so it builds
          cleanly.

2005-09-01, Version 1.8.1 (Revision 123)
        * Much improved configure-script: libraries and features may now be
          disabled.
        * More detailed warnings/error messages when RRD update fails.

2005-08-29, Version 1.8.0:
        * Support for collecting disk statistics under Solaris.

2005-08-25, Version 1.7.0:
        * Support for libstatgrab[1] for load, memory usage and network
          traffic. CPU- and disk-usage are not (yet) supported, since
          libstatgrab returns insufficient information. I will contact the
          authors.
        * Improved the CPU-initialization code for Solaris. Apparently CPUs
          aren't necessarily counted linear which is now handled correctly.
        [1]: http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/

2005-08-21, Version 1.6.0:
        * Basic support for Solaris: System load and cpu-usage can be
          collected under Solaris, too. Other stats will follow later.
        * Many fixes in the autoconf-script
        * Collection/Museum scripts have been added under contrib/museum
        * collectd may now be started in unprivileged mode, though ping
          statistics will not work.

2005-07-17, Version 1.5.1:
        * Diskstats-RRDs now use major/minor for naming. Some systems have
          weird strings as disk-names..

2005-07-17, Version 1.5:
        * A new module, diskstats, has been added. It collects information
          about the disks and partitions.

2005-07-11, Version 1.4.2:
        * The meminfo module has been changed to work with more platforms
          and/or kernel versions.

2005-07-10, Version 1.4.1: Correct traffic stats
        * The traffic rrd-file is now created with DS-type `COUNTER' which I
          forgot to correct when I changed that module.

2005-07-09, Version 1.4: More traffic stats
        * Traffic is now collected for all interfaces that can be found
        * Temperature-statistics are read from lm-sensors if available

2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
        * Collecting CPU statistics now

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

2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
        * Nothing really useful to say ;)

2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
        * The following modules are provided:
          * Load average
          * Ping time
          * Traffic
          * Memory info