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Version 5.8 has been released on Saturday, November 17th 2017. This version is currently supported.

Changes

Release 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
  • E-Mail 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

Release 5.8.1

Released on Tuesday, October 23rd 2018.

  • 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 Maryam 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. #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
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