X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?p=collectd.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=27f58e9a4747a51c51a37bb516f9d55df094a520;hp=2e6b6e976cf5cf0360befa59487ce0a78e8b808b;hb=HEAD;hpb=081695d86026186373a76a4c6b6abacd21b3c3c6 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 2e6b6e97..27f58e9a 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,413 @@ +2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0 + * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include + only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his + patch. + * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This + improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act + as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for + reviewing this change and fixing bugs. + * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using + regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric + can now be set via the configuration file. + * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented. + * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers + has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch. + * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks + to Dan Fandrich for his patch. + * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The + "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch. + * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to + Greg Mason for his patch. + * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks + to Johan Wirén for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication / + compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his + patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work. + * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for his patches. + * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been + implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created + asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances. + Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code. + * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV + files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for + his patch. + * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added. + * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to + Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to + Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work. + +2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for his patch. + * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed. + * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks + to Manuel Cissé for his patch. + * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed. + * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed. + * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback. + * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to + "jkrabbe" for the patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + +2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1 + * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris + and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches. + * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages + more frequently than intended. + * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added. + * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used + character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault. + * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed. + A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was + configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these + problems. + * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name. + * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the + "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been + fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources + has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam + log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting + the logging problem. + * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for reporting this bug. + +2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0 + * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved. + Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch. + * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a + per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for + his work. + * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real + looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new + plugin, for example. + * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets + in the binary format has been added. + * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple + value lists into one. + * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON + output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch. + * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to + Thomas Meson for the patch. + * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to + Manuel Rozada for his patch. + * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the + Mac OS X version. + * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't + configured. + * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks + to "Davide Guerri" for the patch. + * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added. + Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch. + * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The + behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to + Johan Kiviniemi for the patches. + * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added. + * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's + packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes + for their work. + * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added. + Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added. + Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches. + * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to + Cosmin Ioiart for the patch. + * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added. + Thanks to biancalana for the patch. + * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan", + "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added. + * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX + version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out + "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch. + * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc + for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch. + +2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed. + * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks + to Manuel Cissé for his patch. + * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback. + * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to + "jkrabbe" for the patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + +2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2 + * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for his patches. + * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages + more frequently than intended. + * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used + character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault. + * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to + Ed Schouten for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name. + * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam + log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting + this problem. + * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves + Mettier for reporting this bug. + +2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources. + Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem. + * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion + correctly. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli for fixing this. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of + uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for + reporting these problems. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to + "biancalana" for the fix. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been + fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch. + * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and + later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch. + +2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0 + * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has + been removed. + * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using + "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches. + * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use + the system time rather than the time reported by BIND. + * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been + added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch. + * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics + directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch. + * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in + addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves + Ritschard for his patch. + * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default + ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g. + regex matching. + * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various + states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann + for his patch. + * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been + added. + * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin + Ioiart for his patch. + * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the + Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux. + * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation. + Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch. + * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been + added. + * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to + Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch. + * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added. + * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added. + Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch. + * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel + Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch. + * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to + Aaron Brady for his patch. + * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to + Jérôme Renard for his patches. + * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value + lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch + and Chris Lundquist for their work. + * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value + lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series + database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their + work. + * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to + Aurelien Rougemont for his patches. + * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been + added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + +2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources. + Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem. + * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion + correctly. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to + Fabien Wernli for fixing this. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks + to Sebastian Harl for fixing this. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to + "biancalana" for the fix. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + +2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4 + * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang + for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables + plugin under Gentoo. + * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has + been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this + issue. + * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed. + * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7. + * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis + Opter for his patch. + * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was + truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the + patch. + * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This + was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an + endless loop. + * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been + added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his + patch. + * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and + write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this + bug. + * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has + been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and + then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value. + * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD + runtime has been fixed. + +2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3 + * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables + plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the + version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for + his patch. + * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the + DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to + Jonathan Nieder for his patch. + * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file + handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the + "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie + Roos for his patch. + * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has + been fixed. + * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been + fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch. + * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus" + interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such + as bonding pseudo-devices as well. + 2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch! @@ -119,6 +529,119 @@ * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5 schema. +2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9 + * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and + libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch. + * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and + write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite + redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences + have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library. + Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches. + * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around + caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks + to Nathan Huff for the patch. + * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have + been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch. + * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to + Tomas Doran for his patch. + * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has + been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch. + * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g. + "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his + patch. + +2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8 + * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove + unwanted permission bits. + * collectd: Build issues have been fixed. + * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code + for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures + under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this. + * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes + have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these. + * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior. + * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them + reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this. + * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the + "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small + by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10 + seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel + Sanmartin for reporting this problem. + * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous + define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by + Daniel Sutto. + * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed. + Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue. + * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication + errors. + * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been + changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to + "KIvosak" for the patch. + * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to + Chris Lundquist for his patch. + * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved. + * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when + ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure + much faster. + * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert + and Sven Trenkel for fixing this. + * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a + warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug. + * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been + added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been + added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these + problems. + +2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7 + * Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang + for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables + plugin under Gentoo. + * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has + been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this + issue. + * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed. + * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7. + * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis + Opter for his patch. + * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was + truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the + patch. + * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This + was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an + endless loop. + * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been + added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his + patch. + * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and + write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this + bug. + * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has + been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and + then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value. + * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD + runtime has been fixed. + +2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6 + * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables + plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the + version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for + his patch. + * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the + DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to + Jonathan Nieder for his patch. + * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file + handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch. + * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the + "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie + Roos for his patch. + * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has + been fixed. + * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been + fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch. + * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus" + interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such + as bonding pseudo-devices as well. + 2012-01-21, Version 4.10.5 * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!