Difference between revisions of "Version 5.5"

Revision as of 08:40, 21 May 2015

Version 5.5 has not been released yet.

Changes

Release 5.5.0

Changes since 5.4.0 up to 0c88d3b2 (NB: doesn't include bugfixes which are already in the release branches).

• 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: 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, Java, 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 result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #441
• MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #248, #621, #699, #824
• MySQL plugin: The Alias and ConnectTimeout options have been added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
• Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
• Network plugin: The ReconnectInterval configuration option has been added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
• NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek Becka. #550
• OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
• OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
• OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from OpenLDAP's cn=Monitor subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
• OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Ed Okerson. #252
• OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris Lundquist. #264
• Perl plugin: A new listval_filter method has been added, various internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
• PostgreSQL plugin: The new ExpireDelay option allows skipping older values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen O'Dor. #593
• PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
• Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
• Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, ModulePath is now prepended to sys.path, and the get_dataset() function has been added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne. #890, #751, #771
• Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc Fournier, Johan Bergström and Michael Spiegle. #296, #464, #475, #799
• Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
• Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
• Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added. Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
• SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
• SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
• SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
• SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to Sergey. #939, #952
• Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages. Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
• Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where SwapCached isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster. #733
• Tail plugin: GaugeInc and GaugeAdd options have been implemented. Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
• Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis. Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
• TCPConns plugin: The AllPortsSummary option, allowing to summarize all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
• TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
• Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
• UnixSock plugin: The GETTHRESHOLD command has been re-added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
• Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #618, #783
• virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
• virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
• virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to Florian Forster.
• Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails, reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to Florian Forster. #625
• Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been improved. The <URL "url"> block has been deprecated in favor of <Node "identifier">. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
• Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
• Write HTTP plugin: The LowSpeedLimit and Timeout options allow to reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc Fournier. #752, #985
• Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server can now be controlled with the BufferSize option. Thanks to Florian Forster. #722
• Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard, ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
• Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
• Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
• Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
• Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
• Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
• Write Riemann plugin: The EventServicePrefix option has been added, which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
• Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
• Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
• Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
• ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
• Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper MNTR command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826