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2018-10-23, Version 5.8.1
* collectd: Fix "BaseDir" option. Thanks to Mariusz Białończyk and
Pavel Rochnyak. #2857
* collectd: improve error handling, check return values. Thanks to
Florian Forster.
* Build System: use "kstat.h", when available. Thanks to Dagobert
Michelsen and Pavel Rochnyak. #2784
* Build System: Fix distcheck on MacOS. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
* Build System: add missing include of ""collectd.h"" to fix builds on
Solaris. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak.
* Build System: add endianess checks for AIX, fix GCC issue on Mac
byteorder, fix byteorder on Solaris, add fallback for endianess
conversion. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen (multiple cherry picks from
master).
* Build System: Out-of-tree builds have been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster. #2602
* Configuration: Error handling in the config parsing code has been
improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Documentation: Fix typo in collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak.
#2760
* Documentation: update note on dpdkstat. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2613
* Various plugins: Errors found by the static code analysis tool
Coverity were fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2559, #2560, #2561,
#2562, #2563, #2565, #2568, #2575, #2579, #2580, #2588, #2589
* Ceph plugin: A segfault has been fixed. Thanks to Aleksei Zakharov and
Matthias Runge. #2572
* DF plugin: fix memory leak in error case. Thanks to Takahashi tsc.
* Exec plugin: check return value of "plugin_thread_create()". Thanks to
Florian Forster.
* Exec plugin: Handling of large groups has been fixed. Thanks to
Sridhar Mallem. #2696
* Exec plugin: Incorrect use of *putenv(3)* has been fixed. Thanks to
Daniel Vrátil.
* Exec plugin: A deadlock related to setting environment variables after
*fork()* has been fixed. Thanks to Daniel Vrátil.
* Intel PMU plugin: add core groups feature. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski.
#2681
* Intel PMU plugin: fix compatibility issue with collectd 5.8. Thanks to
Kamil Wiatrowski.
* Intel PMU plugin: fix possible "NULL" pointer dereference. Thanks to
Kamil Wiatrowski. #2676
* IPMI plugin: A segfault caused by a wrong data type has been fixed.
Thanks to Mariusz Szafrański. #2742
* IPMI plugin: The sensor configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to
Pavel Rochnyak. #2629
* memcached plugin: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyak. #2612
* NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan-Philipp
Litza. #2076
* NTPd plugin: A memory leak in the error handling path has been fixed.
Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2942
* OVS Stats plugin: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to
Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2590
* OVS Stats plugin: Fix reconnect after thread terminated. Thanks to
Volodymyr Mytnyk and Maram Tahhan. #2574
* Perl plugin: A compilation failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyak. #2732
* Perl plugin: Fix exporting notification meta data. Thanks to Florian
Forster.
* RRDtool plugin: Handling of very large "GAUGE" metrics has been fixed.
Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2566
* Tail plugin: Several regressions have been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyak. #2535, #2587, #2611
* turbostat plugin: A potential segfault due to an incorrect *free()*
has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2948
* UUID plugin: Fix hostname setting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2723
* virt plugin: A segfault during error handling has been fixed. Thanks
to Ruben Kerkhof. {{Issue|2919]}
* Write Kafka plugin: A build failure due to a deprecated API call has
been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2607, #2628, #2640
* Write Prometheus plugin: Fix "MHD_USE_INTERNAL_POLLING_THREAD" flag in
newer libmicrohttpd. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2849
* Write Prometheus plugin: set "SO_REUSEADDRESS" on listening socket.
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2570, #2673
2017-11-17, Version 5.8.0
* collectd: The core daemon is now completely licensed under the MIT
license.
* collectd: Added daemon option to avoid making BaseDir. Thanks to
Nathaniel Wesley Filardo and Florian Forster. #2422
* collectd: Global variables have been moved to their own module to make
porting collectd easier. Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2467
* collectd as well as Apache, memcached, OpenLDAP, Perl, RouterOS, SNMP,
Tail-CSV plugins: Free userdata for "plugin_register_complex_read()".
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2349
* Collectd client library: Added parsing and server code. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #2258
* Build system: Dependency on libltdl has been removed, support for
libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1898
* Build system: The build system has been switched to non-recursive
make. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2085
* APC UPS plugin: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a
"<Plugin />" block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack. #2351
* Chrony plugin: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1
server have been fixed. Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2190
* Ceph plugin: Support for the Ceph version "Luminous" has been added.
Thanks to Aleksei Zakharov. #2464
* CPU plugin : Linux-specific "guest" states have been added. Thanks to
Xavier G. #2439
* cURL plugin, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, DBI, FileCount, memcachec, Oracle,
PostgreSQL, Table, Tail, Tail CSV plugins: The ability to configure
the "plugin" field of generated metrics has been added. Thanks to
Pavel Rochnyack. #1944, #1681, #1558
* cURL-JSON plugin: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster. #2281
* DPDKEvents plugin: This new plugin reports link status and keep alive
events. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Serhiy Pshyk,
Kim-Marie Jones, Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw Szczerbik, Christian
Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2157, #2348, #2400, #2405, #2417
* DPDKStat plugin: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related
utility functions reusable. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak, Przemyslaw
Szczerbik, Christian Ehrhardt and Luca Boccassi. #2130, #2348, #2400,
#2405, #2417
* DPDKStat plugin: The "LogLevel" and "RteDriverLibPath" config options
have been added. Thanks to Jiri Prokes. #2505
* Email plugin as well as Exec and Unixsock plugins: Use
"_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX". Thanks to Florian Forster. #2451
* FileCount plugin: Custom values for reported plugin, type and type
instance. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1979
* GenericJMX plugin: Support for "AtomicInteger" and "AtomicLong" has
been added. Thanks to Pierre Mauduit. #2158
* gRPC plugin: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to Taylor
Cramer. #2378
* IPC plugin: Fixed failed compilation on AIX. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack. #2357
* Intel PMU plugin: This new plugin collects CPU performance metrics
using Intel's Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU). Scaling information
added to metadata. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk and Roman Korynkevych.
#2276, #2398, #2374
* Intel RDT plugin: Support for collectd's logging infrastructure has
been added. PQoS monitoring groups are being reset on start-up to fix
potential previous unclean shutdowns. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych.
#2089.
* IPMI plugin: Support for System Event Log (SEL) has been added. Thanks
to Roman Korynkevych. #2091
* IPMI plugin: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added.
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2024
* LVM plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_ADMIN" capability has been added.
This will give users an informative warning when the process is not
running with the required privileges for this plugin. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #2426, #2499
* mcelog plugin: This new plugin subscribes to Machine Check Exceptions
(MCE) and dispatches notifications. Metadata reset. Thanks to Maryam
Tahhan, Volodymyr Mytnyk, Taras Chornyi, Krzysztof Matczak and Roman
Korynkevych. #2003, #2246, #2380
* MQTT plugin: Add support for TLS in "Subscriber" blocks. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #2434
* memcached plugin: Persistent connections have been implemented. Fix
hit ratio reporting, add connections rate report. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack. #2388, #2385
* memcached plugin: The type of the "listen_disabled" metric has been
changed to "total_events". Thanks to Florian Forster. #2386, #2468
* Netlink plugin: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to
Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2053
* NFS plugin: Support for NFS 4.2 metrics has been added. Thanks to
Marek Becka. #2369
* NFS plugin: Config options to ignore specified NFS versions have been
added. Thanks to Christian Bartolomäus. #2430
* NUT plugin: The "ConnectTimeout", "ForceSSL", "VerifyPeer" and
"CAPath" options have been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Steven
Bell. #2145, #2354
* OpenLDAP plugin: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed.
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2377
* Openvpn plugin: Added support for status files from latest OpenVPN-2.4
and possible from future versions. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2352
* OVS Events plugin: This new plugin reports link state changes from
Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #1971
* OVS Stats plugin: This new plugin reports bridge / interface
statistics from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk and
Taras Chornyi. #2137
* Perl plugin: Bugfix, added check of proper interpreter initialization.
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2391
* PostgreSQL plugin: The plugin now sets the "application_name"
parameter when connecting to the database. Thanks to daniacs. #2497
* Processes plugin: The I/O operations reported for selected processes
has been fixed. The metric "ps_disk_octets" has been renamed to
"io_octets" because it actually contains the number of I/O operation
by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for "io_ops"
(previously "ps_disk_ops"). The new metric "disk_octets" has been
added and is reporting disk I/O only. Add option to collect the count
of active memory maps for Linux processes. The "CollectFileDescriptor"
and "CollectContextSwitch" options have been added. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack and to Wilfried Goesgens. #2232, #2454, #1989
* Processes and TCPConns plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been
changed to use "kvm_openfiles" with "KVM_NO_FILES". Thanks to Jeremie
Courreges-Anglas. #2061
* Python plugin: Extend Notification class to include metadata. Thanks
to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2135
* Python plugin: The "CollectdException" class has been added. This
allows to throw an exception without a stack trace being logged.
Thanks to Sven Trenkel. #2330, #2346
* Sensors plugin: Support for (electrical) current has been added.
Thanks to Clemens Gruber. #2255
* SNMP plugin: Error handling has been improved: a potential double-free
is now avoided (potentially leaking memory) and handling of
non-failing subtrees has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2449
* SNMP plugin: The "Timeout" and "Retries" config options have been
added. Thanks to Carlos Vicente. #1472, #2488
* SNMP Agent plugin: This new plugin implements an SNMP AgentX subagent
that receives and handles queries from SNMP master agent and returns
configured metrics. Thanks to Roman Korynkevych, Serhiy Pshyk and
Pavel Rochnyack. #2105, #2362
* Synproxy plugin: This new plugin provides statistics for Linux
SYNPROXY. Thanks to Marek Bečka. #2381
* Tail plugin: Allow the calculation of several distributions in one
"tail" instance through a "bucket" type. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack.
#2442
* Turbostat plugin: Import "msr-index.h" header from Linux and better
support for mutliple packages. Thanks to Vincent Brillault. #2445,
#2446
* Uptime plugin: Changed implementation to read from "/proc/uptime"
instead of "/proc/stat". Update for Linux and AIX, uptime is read
directly using a system call. Update for BSD and Solaris, uptime is
calculated by subtracting boot time from current time. Thanks to Ivan
Kurnosov and Marcin Jurkowski. #2431, #2034
* UUID plugin: Support for libhal has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
Kerkhof. #2080
* Varnish plugin: Extended the varnish plugin with varnish-plus
counters. Fixed invalid data source type. Thanks to Denes Matetelki.
#2453, #2463
* virt plugin: The plugin has been updated to use
"virConnectListAllDomains()". Thanks to Denis Silakov. #2051
* virt plugin: Support for domain tags has been added. Thanks to
Francesco Romani. #2048
* virt plugin: Connection handling has been improved. Thanks to
Francesco Romani. #2100, #2101
* virt plugin: Many metrics have been added, including disk, hypervisor
CPU usage, performance monitoring events, domain state, CPU pinning
(affinity), file system, and job statistics. Thanks to Francesco
Romani and Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2103, #2175, #2168
* Write Graphite plugin: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to
Florian Forster.
* Write HTTP plugin: The "Attribute" and "TTL" options for the KairosDB
format have been added. Implementation of "Prefix" option. Thanks to
jaroug, Denis Pompilio and Pavel Rochnyack. #2199, #2252, #2482
* Write MongoDB plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to
Saikrishna Arcot. #2307
* Write Prometheus plugin: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks
to Florian Forster. #2035
* Write Redis plugin: Add "max_set_duration" to set duration for value.
Thanks to Tomofumi Hayashi. #2440
* Write Riemann plugin: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks
to mcorbin. #2315
* Write TSDB plugin: The options "ResolveInterval" and "ResolveJitter"
have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS
flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to Yves Mettier and
Florian Forster. #2059
* ZFS ARC plugin: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux
implementation. Thanks to YmrDtnJu. #2097
2017-06-06, Version 5.7.2
* Build system: The Notify Email plugin is no longer linked with
indirect dependencies. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* collectd: A race condition when calculating a metric's rate has been
fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1193
* AMQP, Exec, UnixSock, Write Kafka plugins: Parsing of the PUTVAL
command with multiple values has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster. #2274
* AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
* BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local timezone when in
fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
* BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
#2303
* cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster. #2266
* DPDKStat plugin: Error handling during initialization has been
improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
* DPDKStat plugin: Handling of a number of metrics has been improved,
for example "rx_q0bytes". Thanks to Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2167
* Intel RDT plugin: Configuration handling has been changed to be more
graceful. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2165
* Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
"STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
"STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
* MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
* Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
* Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster. #2278
* Processes plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to
Pavel Rochnyack. #2210
* SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
* Write Prometheus plugin: An incorrect use of "realloc(3)" has been
fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2275
2017-01-23, Version 5.7.1
* collectd: Handling of boolean configuration options has been unified.
Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
* collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #2108
* collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and
coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian
Forster.
* Build system: Parallel build have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
#2110
* DPDKStat plugin: Portability issues and a double-close bug have been
fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
* Intel RDT plugin: A check for the libpqos library version has been
added. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk.
* NetApp plugin: Compilation problems have been corrected. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #2120
* Write Prometheus plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
Kerkhof.
2016-12-12, Version 5.7.0
* Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks
to Florian Forster
* Documentation: The semantics of the "TypesDB" option have been
improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been
added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749
* collectd: Threads now get named, making them easier to track using
tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada
and Marc Fournier. #547
* AMQP plugin, Write Graphite plugin, Write Kafka plugin: The new
"[Graphite]PreserveSeparator" option allows retaining the default dot
separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419
* Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been
added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795
* CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang.
#1957
* Collectd::Unixsock: Fractional seconds support has been made more
robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052
* DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics.
Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim
Jones. #1649
* gRPC plugin: The "DispatchValues" option has been renamed to
"PutValues". Thanks to Florian Forster.
* HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to
Benjamin Gilbert. #631
* Hugepages plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used and free
hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones
and Florian Forster. #1799
* Intel RDT plugin: This new plugin collects statistics exposed by
Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970
* memcached plugin: The new "Address" option allows connecting to a
different server than specified by the "Host" option. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack. #1975
* nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added.
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609
* Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new
"RegisterLegacyFlush" option has been added. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack. #1731
* PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time.
Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918
* Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made.
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981
* RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed
operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959
* SpamAssassin: The plugin can now run in Perl's "tainted mode" ("-T").
Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962
* Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching
values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
#1700
* Tail plugin: The new "GaugePersist" option has been added. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #2015
* Target:Set, Target:Replace, Match:RegEx: MetaData support has been
added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930
* turbostat plugin: The new "LogicalCoreNames" option allows switching
to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056
* virt plugin: The new "BlockDeviceFormat" and
"BlockDeviceFormatBasename" options help controlling the names
reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004
* Write Graphite plugin: A new "DropDuplicateFields" option has been
added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915
* Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" setting has been reintroduced.
Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
* Write Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been
added, using the new "Format" configuration option. Thanks to Igor
Peshansky. #1924
* Write Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an
embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus'
collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967
2017-10-06, Version 5.6.3
* collectd: support for boolean string config values has been
reintroduced. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
* collectd: The capability checking has been changed to use
"cap_get_proc()". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2151
* Documentation: A section documenting ignore lists has been added to
collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Florian Forster.
* AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
* Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP
plugins: Handling of URLs that redirect elsewhere has been fixed.
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2328
* BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local time zone when in
fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
* BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
#2303
* Chrony plugin: Build flags have been fixed. Thanks to Thomas Jost and
Marc Fournier. #2133
* cURL-JSON plugin: The timeout value has been changed to default to the
collection interval. This fixes a regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster. #2266
* DBI plugin: Memory leaks at shutdown have been fixes. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
* E-Mail, Exec, UnixSock plugins: Group ID lookup on systems with many
groups has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian Forster.
#2208
* IPC plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack. #2305
* LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
"STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
"STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
* MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
* Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
* Network plugin: A use-after-free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
Rochnyack. #2375
* Notify Email plugin: The plugin is no longer explicitly linked against
libssl and libcrypto, relies on libesmtp being linked correctly.
Thanks to Marc Fournier. Debian#852924
* NTPd plugin: Calculation of loop offset and error has been fixed.
Thanks to Neil Wilson. #2188
* OpenLDAP plugin: An incorrect use of the ldap library, leading to a
crash, has been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2331
* Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster. #2278
* Perl plugin: Print an error when an incorrect configuration is
encountered. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #927
* RRDtool plugin: Incorrect handling of the flushes timeout option has
been fixed. Handling of the "RandomTimeout" has been fixed. Thanks to
Pavel Rochnyack. #2363
* SMART plugin: Some warning messages have been removed and the code has
been cleaned up. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2062
* SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* SNMP plugin: A double free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack.
#2291
* Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
* Write Kafka plugin: A 32 bit random number is now used when formatting
a random key. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2074
2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2
* collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
* collectd: The capability checking has been rewritten to be more
portable. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2009
* collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
Fournier.
* collectd-tg: Incorrect usage of "nanosleep()" has been fixed which
caused the tool to sleep (almost) indefinitely. Thanks to Florian
Forster.
* Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
Fournier. #1523
* Build system: Detection of the Lua headers has been improved. Thanks
to Ruben Kerkhof.
* APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
* Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
Florian Forster.
* OpenVPN plugin: Gracefully handle empty configurations. Thanks to
Pavel Rochnyack. #1932
* PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
* Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
* Write HTTP plugin: A logic error when checking the correctness of the
data set has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1996
* Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" config option has been fixed.
Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
* Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
to Florian Forster.
* ZFS ARC plugin: A duplicate metric has been removed. Thanks to Ruben
Kerkhof. #1963
2016-10-07, Version 5.6.1
* Build system: Unnecessary linking of the Write Graphite plugin with
libyajl has been removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
Debian#839771, #1976
* collectd: A bug in the "FlushInterval" option that caused a
segmentation fault in the Write HTTP plugin has been fixed. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #1954
* Apache plugin: A syntax error has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster.
* cURL-JSON plugin: A segmentation fault that occurred when handling
JSON with unexpected structure has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Forster. #1896
* PostgreSQL plugin: Handling of "NULL" values in the "query_plans" and
"query_plans_by_table" queries has been fixed. Thanks to Bernd
Zeimetz. #1905
* RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior has been added. Thanks to
Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
* VServer plugin: Use of a deprecated API ("readdir_r()") has been
fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
* Write Graphite plugin: Make default values configurable at compile
time again. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1953
* Write HTTP plugin: A bug has been fixed that lead to flush callbacks
being registered twice. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1955
2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
* Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
* Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
* Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
Kerkhof. #1222
* Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
* Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
* collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
* collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
* collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
* collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
to Corey Kosak. #1642
* collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
* Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
* AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
Florian Forster #617
* APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
Thanks to Florian Forster #617
* ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
* Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
* cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
* CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
Wernli.
* cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
* DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
* Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
* Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
to Florian Forster. #1813
* GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
* GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
* gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
Forster.
* Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
Marc Falzon. #1555
* Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
* Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
* Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
Ruben Kerkhof.
* Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
Thanks to Brian ONeill.
* MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
* MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
* MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
#1773
* MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
Thanks to Marek Becka.
* MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
Rachid Zarouali. #1849
* MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
Gupta. #1111
* MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
* Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
* Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
#1783
* OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
* OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
* Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
* PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
* PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
* Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
* Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
* Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
* Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
* Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
Christian Fetzer.
* SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
to Scott Talbert. #1770
* SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
* SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
Vincent Bernat. #1397
* StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
* StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
* UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
"/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
* virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
* Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
* Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
* Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
vzubko.
* Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
* Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
* Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
"StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
Sebastian Pfahl.
* Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
* Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
* Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
* XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
* ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
Kerkhof.
* Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
2016-11-28, Version 5.5.3
* collectd: Write threads are stopped before shutdown callbacks are
called. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1110
* collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.
* libcollectdclient: Lines printed to "STDERR" are now guarded by the
environment variable "COLLECTD_TRACE". Thanks to Florian Forster. #105
* collectd.conf(5): Various typos have been fixed. Thanks to Marc
Fournier.
* Build system: Detection of the Java environment has been made
deterministic to allow for reproducible builds. Thanks to Marc
Fournier. #1523
* APC UPS plugin: Unavailable metrics are now skipped instead of
reported as 0 (zero). Thanks to Florian Forster. #2025
* Battery plugin: The minimum value has been removed from the power type
to allow the plugin to report discharging batteries as negative power.
Thanks to Florian Forster.
* DBI, Oracle and PostgreSQL plugins: An error message when the type
instance is truncated has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #4
* cURL-JSON plugin: A possible segmentation fault when parsing
unexpected JSON has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1896
* DF plugin: Compilation with xfsprogs ≥ 4.7.0 has been fixed. Thanks
to Thomas Deutschmann. #1877
* Modbus plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
Florian Forster.
* Network plugin: An error message has been corrected. Thanks to Florian
Forster.
* Network plugin: Handling of errors form secure memory initialization
has been improved: the plugin fails gracefully now instead of calling
"abort()". Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
* Network plugin: The gcrypt library is only initialized when it is
actually required due to the network plugin's configuration. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #1902
* Ping plugin: The init callback has been changed to be idempotent,
fixing errors being reported on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster.
#869
* PostgreSQL plugin: The query_plans and query_plans_by_table queries
have been improved to return 0 (zero) instead of "NULL" when not
available. Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz. #1905
* PowerDNS plugin: The "recursor command" has been fixed so PowerDNS can
correctly parse all requested fields. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
* Python plugin: Handling of data sets with multiple data sources of
different type has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
* RRDCacheD plugin: Reconnection behavior after failed operations has
been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. Debian#657877
* Write Graphite and AMQP plugins: A bug that could lead to a missing
null-termination has been fixed. Thanks to Markus Linnala.
* Write Kafka plugin: Support for librdkafka 0.9.0 has been added.
Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Write Riemann plugin: Build issues on Solaris have been fixed. Thanks
to Florian Forster.
2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
* collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
"plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
* collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
* Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
* Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
* DF plugin: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
Ruben Kerkhof. #1575
* Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
Guthmann. #1059
* Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
* Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
* Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was
ignored. Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
* Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
* Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
* Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
* Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
* Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
* SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
* StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
Pavel Rochnyack #1703
* Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
* Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
* Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
Berkley. #1063
* Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
* Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
* Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
Benjamin Drung;. #1323
* Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
* Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
* collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
* Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
* Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
* Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
Fournier. #1338
* Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
* Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
* CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
Viduya.
* Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
Robert Viduya. #1065
* IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
to Natanael Copa. #1147
* Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
* Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
to Marc Fournier. #1132
* memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
* MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
* OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
* OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
Kerkhof. #1489
* SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
* Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
#1071
* Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
Kerkhof. #1182
* Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
Fournier. #1302
* virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
* Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
Shahul Hameed. #1171
* Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
#1143
* 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
* Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
An Iomaire. #1295
2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
* Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
* Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
#807, #908
* Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
* Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
Florian Forster.
* Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
to Marc Fournier.
* collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
* collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
* collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
* collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
* collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
* collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
Yves Mettier. #691
* collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
"src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
* collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
"PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
* collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
* libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
* Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
Forster and Marc Fournier.
* Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
* Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
* Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
* Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
* AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
Fournier. #833
* AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
* Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
* Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
"Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
* Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
* Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
Moreno. #946
* Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
#693
* Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
* Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
* Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
* ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
* CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
* cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
* cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
* cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
* DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
Mark Wong. #317, #321
* DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
* Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
* Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
Schenck. #705, #759
* DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
* Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
* fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
* GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
Moutot. #452
* IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
* Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
* Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
* Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
#360
* LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
* memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
to Matt Cottingham. #622
* Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
* Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
#559
* Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
* Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
* Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
* MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now