RRDtool 1.7.1 - 2019-02-04

Bugfixes

• about 38949 assorted fixes for the windows build of rrdtool <Wolfgang Stöggl>
• fix many compile time warnings <Wolfgang Stöggl>
• Re-enable 0-width lines
• Include rrd_pdpcalc.pod in Makefile.am also <Peter Valdemar Mørch>
• Lots of spelling fixes for rrdtool source and documentation <Peter Valdemar Mørch>, <Jean-Michel Vourgère>, ,
• fix off by one issue in rrdtool xport output
• fix lua extension build
• fix python bindings , , , <Christian Kröger>
• fix multiple static variable issues in conflict with MT
• make translations actually work
• Fixed configure --enable / --disable options <Jaroslav Škarvada>
• rrd_daemon stability fixes
• fix tcl bindings
• do not call umask ever (not MT safe)

Features

• Multiline Titles , ,
• French translation <Jean-Michel Vourgère>
• Added support for --allow-shrink with --rigid flag (#843)
• Added SUSPEND/RESUME/SUSPENDALL/RESUMEALL commands for rrd_cached <
• include the daemon name in the error message

full details in v1.7.0...v1.7.1

Update: new tarball with complete etc directory

This release has only very few user visible changes , but the whole code has been analyzed with Coverty and issues have been fixed. So there should be many fewer chances for rrdtool to crash from odd input.

Bugfixes

• made rrd_fetch_cb_wrapper in RRDs more careful with its arguments
• many bugfixes to resolve issues identified Coverty scan
• fix build issues with libdbl
• take the ds step into account while caching data in rrd graph DEF statements
• never 'exit' from librrd (even when DEBUG is on)

Features

• new command rrd list to show rrd files in a directory
• configurable log-level for rrdcached
• hungarian translation (hu.po)

API

• New Exported funtions: rrd_lcd, rrd_reduce_data, rrd_cf_conf and rrd_list
• rrd_list support for perl and python binding
• all new and much more complete python bindings working on both python 2.6+ and 3.3+
• extended documentation in rrdlib.pod

New Features

• librrd is now fully thread-safe. librrd_th is gone
• make lua bindings work with lua 5.1
• configure option to disable doc building --enable-docs=no
• new CDEF function SMIN: a,b,c,3,SMIN -> min(a,b,c)
• new CDEF function SMAX: a,b,c,3,SMAX -> max(a,b,c)
• new CDEF function STDEV: a,b,c,3,STDEV -> stdev(a,b,c)
• new CDEF function POW: a,b,POW -> a**b
• new CDEF function PERCENT: a,b,c,95,3,PERCENT -> find 95percentile of a,b,c
• re-introducted --showtime option on rrdxport
• be more careful in determining the locales idea of first day of the week
• lots of spelling fixes all around

a bunch of bugfixes for the 1.5 branch

• segfault on CDEF:x=
• Disable nagel algorithm as it is causing massive slowdown
• make vname nameing rules more liberal and more in line with 1.4
• Fix recursive directory creation in rrdcached on FREEBSD
• Fixed compilation when there's no sigwaitinfo

in anticipation of the first 1.6 release ...

Bugfixes

• fix JSON output in xport with legend and gprint blocks
• fix parse_time mutex unlocking in the error case
• don't crash on invalid variable names in CDEF
• add mutex locking in rrdc_fetch
• fix buffer overflow in rrd_restore
• shorten test precision to 7 digits ...
• never exit from a library function
• buffer overflow in rrd_restore.c fixed #669

Bug Fixes

• parse floating point numbers according to C locale in rrdtool create
  arguments, regardless of the systems locale setting.
• include missing rrd_rados.h into distribution archive
• make rrdtool work on ARM again
• make rrdtool test suit pass on 32bit OSs
• fix --grid-dash option regression in graph
• fix systemd support
• fix link dependency for libpng since we are using functions directly
• fix python module name
• fix rrdtool tune to accept U in minimum and maximum options
• fi
• rrd_parsetime now uses a mutex lock to become thread safe
• rrd_xport is now thread safe
• stop using MAX_PATH and make everything dynamic and make rrdtool work on
  Gnu HURD ... thanks nirgal!

Features

• new RPN operators: STEPWIDTH, NEWDAY, NEWWEEK, NEWMONTH and NEWWEEK
  together they allow to draw graphs where a rate is converted back to
  absolute numbers and accumulated over a period.

Bug Fixes

• Brought commmand-line options and documentation back into sync.
• Make LINE dashes option work again

Bug Fixes

• paramters in VDEF are vnames and not data source names, hence
  they can be 255 chars long and not only 20

Bug Fixes

• parse numbers up to 40 characters long ..
• fix install rules for Python and Lua
• include missing VERSION and LICENSE file
• unlink before rename in rrd_create when running on WIN32