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| − | + | '''Version 5.8''' has been released on ''Saturday, November 17<sup>th</sup> 2017''. | |
| − | '''Version 5. | + | <!-- The newest release is ''5.7.1'' which as been released on ''Monday, January 23<sup>rd</sup> 2017''. --> |
| − | The newest release is ''5.7.1'' which as been released on ''Monday, January 23<sup>rd</sup> 2017''. | ||
This version is currently supported. | This version is currently supported. | ||
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== Changes == | == Changes == | ||
=== Release 5.8.0 === | === Release 5.8.0 === | ||
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* ''collectd:'' The core daemon is now completely licensed under the ''MIT license''. | * ''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 [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2422}} | ||
| + | * ''collectd:'' Global variables have been moved to their own module to make porting ''collectd'' easier. Thanks to ''Sean Campbell''. {{Issue|2467}} | ||
| + | * ''collectd'' as well as [[Plugin:Apache|Apache]], [[Plugin:memcached|memcached]], [[Plugin:OpenLDAP|OpenLDAP]], [[Plugin:Perl|Perl]], [[Plugin:RouterOS|RouterOS]], [[Plugin:SNMP|SNMP]], [[Plugin:Tail_CSV|Tail-CSV]] plugins: Free userdata for <code>plugin_register_complex_read()</code>. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2349}} | ||
| + | * ''Collectd'' client library: Added parsing and server code. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2258}} | ||
* ''Build system:'' Dependency on ''libltdl'' has been removed, support for libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|1898}} | * ''Build system:'' Dependency on ''libltdl'' has been removed, support for libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|1898}} | ||
* ''Build system:'' The build system has been switched to non-recursive make. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2085}} | * ''Build system:'' The build system has been switched to non-recursive make. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2085}} | ||
* {{Plugin|APC UPS}}: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a <code><Plugin /></code> block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2351}} | * {{Plugin|APC UPS}}: The plugin's configuration is now optional. Without a <code><Plugin /></code> block reasonable defaults will be used. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2351}} | ||
* {{Plugin|Chrony}}: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1 server have been fixed. Thanks to ''Miroslav Lichvar''. {{Issue|2190}} | * {{Plugin|Chrony}}: Several issues found when working with a stratum-1 server have been fixed. Thanks to ''Miroslav Lichvar''. {{Issue|2190}} | ||
| − | * | + | * {{Plugin|Ceph}}: Support for the Ceph version "Luminous" has been added. Thanks to ''Aleksei Zakharov''. {{Issue|2464}} |
| − | * {{Plugin|cURL-JSON}}: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to [User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2281}} | + | * {{Plugin|CPU}} : Linux-specific "guest" states have been added. Thanks to ''Xavier G''. {{Issue|2439}} |
| − | * {{Plugin|DPDKEvents}}: This new plugin reports link status and keep alive events. Thanks to | + | * {{Plugin|cURL}}, [[Plugin:cURL-JSON|cURL-JSON]], [[Plugin:cURL-XML|cURL-XML]], [[Plugin:DBI|DBI]], [[Plugin:FileCount|FileCount]], [[Plugin:memcachec|memcachec]], [[Plugin:Oracle|Oracle]], [[Plugin:PostgreSQL|PostgreSQL]], [[Plugin:Table|Table]], [[Plugin:Tail|Tail]], [[Plugin:Tail_CSV|Tail CSV]] plugins: The ability to configure the <code>plugin</code> field of generated metrics has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|1944}}, {{Issue|1681}}, {{Issue|1558}} |
| − | * {{Plugin|DPDKStat}}: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related utility functions reusable. Thanks to ''Krzysztof Matczak''. {{Issue|2130}} | + | * {{Plugin|cURL-JSON}}: Parsing of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2281}} |
| + | * {{Plugin|DPDKEvents}}: This new plugin reports link status and keep alive events. Thanks to [[User:MaryamTahhan|Maryam Tahhan]], ''Harry van Haaren'', ''Serhiy Pshyk'', ''Kim-Marie Jones'', ''Krzysztof Matczak'', ''Przemyslaw Szczerbik'', ''Christian Ehrhardt'' and ''Luca Boccassi''. {{Issue|2157}}, {{Issue|2348}}, {{Issue|2400}}, {{Issue|2405}}, {{Issue|2417}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|DPDKStat}}: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related utility functions reusable. Thanks to ''Krzysztof Matczak'', ''Przemyslaw Szczerbik'', ''Christian Ehrhardt'' and ''Luca Boccassi''. {{Issue|2130}}, {{Issue|2348}}, {{Issue|2400}}, {{Issue|2405}}, {{Issue|2417}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|DPDKStat}}: The <code>LogLevel</code> and <code>RteDriverLibPath</code> config options have been added. Thanks to ''Jiri Prokes''. {{Issue|2505}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|E-Mail}} as well as [[Plugin:Exec|Exec]] and [[Plugin:UnixSock|Unixsock]] plugins: Use <code>_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX</code>. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2451}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|FileCount}}: Custom values for reported plugin, type and type instance. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|1979}} | ||
* {{Plugin|GenericJMX}}: Support for <code>AtomicInteger</code> and <code>AtomicLong</code> has been added. Thanks to ''Pierre Mauduit''. {{Issue|2158}} | * {{Plugin|GenericJMX}}: Support for <code>AtomicInteger</code> and <code>AtomicLong</code> has been added. Thanks to ''Pierre Mauduit''. {{Issue|2158}} | ||
* {{Plugin|gRPC}}: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to ''Taylor Cramer''. {{Issue|2378}} | * {{Plugin|gRPC}}: Support for meta data has been added. Thanks to ''Taylor Cramer''. {{Issue|2378}} | ||
| − | * | + | * {{Plugin|IPC}}: Fixed failed compilation on AIX. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2357}} |
| − | * {{Plugin|Intel PMU}}: This new plugin collects CPU performance metrics using Intel's ''Performance Monitoring Unit'' (PMU). Thanks to ''Serhiy Pshyk''. {{Issue|2276}} | + | * {{Plugin|Intel PMU}}: 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''. {{Issue|2276}}, {{Issue|2398}}, {{Issue|2374}} |
* {{Plugin|Intel RDT}}: 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''. {{Issue|2089}}. | * {{Plugin|Intel RDT}}: 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''. {{Issue|2089}}. | ||
* {{Plugin|IPMI}}: Support for ''System Event Log'' (SEL) has been added. Thanks to ''Roman Korynkevych''. {{Issue|2091}} | * {{Plugin|IPMI}}: Support for ''System Event Log'' (SEL) has been added. Thanks to ''Roman Korynkevych''. {{Issue|2091}} | ||
* {{Plugin|IPMI}}: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2024}} | * {{Plugin|IPMI}}: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2024}} | ||
| − | * {{Plugin|mcelog}}: This new plugin subscribes to ''Machine Check Exceptions'' (MCE) and dispatches notifications. Thanks to | + | * {{Plugin|LVM}}: A check for the <code>CAP_SYS_ADMIN</code> 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 [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2426}}, {{Issue|2499}} |
| + | * {{Plugin|mcelog}}: This new plugin subscribes to ''Machine Check Exceptions'' (MCE) and dispatches notifications. Metadata reset. Thanks to [[User:MaryamTahhan|Maryam Tahhan]], ''Volodymyr Mytnyk'', ''Taras Chornyi'', ''Krzysztof Matczak'' and ''Roman Korynkevych''. {{Issue|2003}}, {{Issue|2246}}, {{Issue|2380}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|MQTT}}: Add support for TLS in <code>Subscriber</code> blocks. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2434}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|memcached}}: Persistent connections have been implemented. Fix hit ratio reporting, add connections rate report. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2388}}, {{Issue|2385}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|memcached}}: The ''type'' of the <code>listen_disabled</code> metric has been changed to <code>total_events</code>. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2386}}, {{Issue|2468}} | ||
* {{Plugin|Netlink}}: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to ''Denys Fedoryshchenko''. {{Issue|2053}} | * {{Plugin|Netlink}}: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to ''Denys Fedoryshchenko''. {{Issue|2053}} | ||
| − | * {{Plugin| | + | * {{Plugin|NFS}}: Support for NFS 4.2 metrics has been added. Thanks to ''Marek Becka''. {{Issue|2369}} |
| − | * {{Plugin|NUT}}: The <code>ForceSSL</code>, <code>VerifyPeer</code> and <code>CAPath</code> | + | * {{Plugin|NFS}}: Config options to ignore specified NFS versions have been added. Thanks to ''Christian Bartolomäus''. {{Issue|2430}} |
| + | * {{Plugin|NUT}}: The <code>ConnectTimeout</code>, <code>ForceSSL</code>, <code>VerifyPeer</code> and <code>CAPath</code> options have been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack'' and ''Steven Bell''. {{Issue|2145}}, {{Issue|2354}} | ||
* {{Plugin|OpenLDAP}}: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2377}} | * {{Plugin|OpenLDAP}}: A segfault after a connection failure has been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2377}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|OpenVPN}}: Added support for status files from latest OpenVPN-2.4 and possible from future versions. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2352}} | ||
* {{Plugin|OVS Events}}: This new plugin reports link state changes from ''Open vSwitch'' (OVS). Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk''. {{Issue|1971}} | * {{Plugin|OVS Events}}: This new plugin reports link state changes from ''Open vSwitch'' (OVS). Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk''. {{Issue|1971}} | ||
* {{Plugin|OVS Stats}}: This new plugin reports bridge / interface statistics from ''Open vSwitch'' (OVS). Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk'' and ''Taras Chornyi''. {{Issue|2137}} | * {{Plugin|OVS Stats}}: This new plugin reports bridge / interface statistics from ''Open vSwitch'' (OVS). Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk'' and ''Taras Chornyi''. {{Issue|2137}} | ||
| − | * {{Plugin|Processes}}: The I/O operations reported for selected processes has been fixed. The metric <code>ps_disk_octets</code> has been renamed to <code>io_octets</code> because it actually contains the number of I/O operation by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for <code>io_ops</code> (previously <code>ps_disk_ops</code>). The new metric <code>disk_octets</code> has been added and is reporting ''disk'' I/O only. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2232}} | + | * {{Plugin|Perl}}: Bugfix, added check of proper interpreter initialization. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2391}} |
| − | * | + | * {{Plugin|PostgreSQL}}: The plugin now sets the <code>application_name</code> parameter when connecting to the database. Thanks to ''daniacs''. {{Issue|2497}} |
| + | * {{Plugin|Processes}}: The I/O operations reported for selected processes has been fixed. The metric <code>ps_disk_octets</code> has been renamed to <code>io_octets</code> because it actually contains the number of I/O operation by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same for <code>io_ops</code> (previously <code>ps_disk_ops</code>). The new metric <code>disk_octets</code> has been added and is reporting ''disk'' I/O only. Add option to collect the count of active memory maps for Linux processes. The <code>CollectFileDescriptor</code> and <code>CollectContextSwitch</code> options have been added. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack'' and to ''Wilfried Goesgens''. {{Issue|2232}}, {{Issue|2454}}, {{Issue|1989}} | ||
| + | * [[Plugin:Processes|Processes]] and [[Plugin:TCPConns|TCPConns]] plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been changed to use <code>kvm_openfiles</code> with <code>KVM_NO_FILES</code>. Thanks to ''Jeremie Courreges-Anglas''. {{Issue|2061}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Python}}: Extend Notification class to include metadata. Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk''. {{Issue|2135}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Python}}: The <code>CollectdException</code> class has been added. This allows to throw an exception without a stack trace being logged. Thanks to ''Sven Trenkel''. {{Issue|2330}}, {{Issue|2346}} | ||
* {{Plugin|Sensors}}: Support for (electrical) current has been added. Thanks to ''Clemens Gruber''. {{Issue|2255}} | * {{Plugin|Sensors}}: Support for (electrical) current has been added. Thanks to ''Clemens Gruber''. {{Issue|2255}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|SNMP}}: 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''. {{Issue|2449}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|SNMP}}: The <code>Timeout</code> and <code>Retries</code> config options have been added. Thanks to ''Carlos Vicente''. {{Issue|1472}}, {{Issue|2488}} | ||
* {{Plugin|SNMP Agent}}: 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''. {{Issue|2105}}, {{Issue|2362}} | * {{Plugin|SNMP Agent}}: 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''. {{Issue|2105}}, {{Issue|2362}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Synproxy}}: This new plugin provides statistics for Linux SYNPROXY. Thanks to ''Marek Bečka''. {{Issue|2381}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Tail}}: Allow the calculation of several distributions in one "tail" instance through a "bucket" type. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2442}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|turbostat}}: Import <code>msr-index.h</code> header from Linux and better support for mutliple packages. Thanks to ''Vincent Brillault''. {{Issue|2445}}, {{Issue|2446}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Uptime}}: Changed implementation to read from <code>/proc/uptime</code> instead of <code>/proc/stat</code>. 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''. {{Issue|2431}}, {{Issue|2034}} | ||
* {{Plugin|UUID}}: Support for ''libhal'' has been removed. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2080}} | * {{Plugin|UUID}}: Support for ''libhal'' has been removed. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2080}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Varnish}}: Extended the varnish plugin with varnish-plus counters. Fixed invalid data source type. Thanks to ''Denes Matetelki''. {{Issue|2453}}, {{Issue|2463}} | ||
* {{Plugin|virt}}: The plugin has been updated to use <code>virConnectListAllDomains()</code>. Thanks to ''Denis Silakov''. {{Issue|2051}} | * {{Plugin|virt}}: The plugin has been updated to use <code>virConnectListAllDomains()</code>. Thanks to ''Denis Silakov''. {{Issue|2051}} | ||
* {{Plugin|virt}}: Support for domain tags has been added. Thanks to ''Francesco Romani''. {{Issue|2048}} | * {{Plugin|virt}}: Support for domain tags has been added. Thanks to ''Francesco Romani''. {{Issue|2048}} | ||
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* {{Plugin|virt}}: 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''. {{Issue|2103}}, {{Issue|2175}}, {{Issue|2168}} | * {{Plugin|virt}}: 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''. {{Issue|2103}}, {{Issue|2175}}, {{Issue|2168}} | ||
* {{Plugin|Write Graphite}}: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. | * {{Plugin|Write Graphite}}: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. | ||
| − | * {{Plugin|Write HTTP}}: The <code>Attribute</code> and <code>TTL</code> options for the KairosDB format have been added. Thanks to ''jaroug''. {{Issue|2199}}, {{Issue|2252}} | + | * {{Plugin|Write HTTP}}: The <code>Attribute</code> and <code>TTL</code> options for the KairosDB format have been added. Implementation of "Prefix" option. Thanks to ''jaroug'', ''Denis Pompilio'' and '' Pavel Rochnyack''. {{Issue|2199}}, {{Issue|2252}}, {{Issue|2482}} |
* {{Plugin|Write MongoDB}}: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to ''Saikrishna Arcot''. {{Issue|2307}} | * {{Plugin|Write MongoDB}}: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to ''Saikrishna Arcot''. {{Issue|2307}} | ||
* {{Plugin|Write Prometheus}}: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2035}} | * {{Plugin|Write Prometheus}}: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2035}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Write Redis}}: Add <code>max_set_duration</code> to set duration for value. Thanks to ''Tomofumi Hayashi''. {{Issue|2440}} | ||
* {{Plugin|Write Riemann}}: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks to ''mcorbin''. {{Issue|2315}} | * {{Plugin|Write Riemann}}: Export times with microsecond resolution. Thanks to ''mcorbin''. {{Issue|2315}} | ||
* {{Plugin|Write TSDB}}: The options <code>ResolveInterval</code> and <code>ResolveJitter</code> have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to ''Yves Mettier'' and [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2059}} | * {{Plugin|Write TSDB}}: The options <code>ResolveInterval</code> and <code>ResolveJitter</code> have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to ''Yves Mettier'' and [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2059}} | ||
* {{Plugin|ZFS ARC}}: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux implementation. Thanks to ''YmrDtnJu''. {{Issue|2097}} | * {{Plugin|ZFS ARC}}: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux implementation. Thanks to ''YmrDtnJu''. {{Issue|2097}} | ||
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| + | === Release 5.8.1 === | ||
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| + | Released on ''Tuesday, October 23<sup>rd</sup> 2018''. | ||
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| + | * ''collectd:'' Fix <code>BaseDir</code> option. Thanks to ''Mariusz Białończyk'' and ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2857}} | ||
| + | * ''collectd:'' improve error handling, check return values. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. | ||
| + | * ''Build System:'' use <code>kstat.h</code>, when available. Thanks to ''Dagobert Michelsen'' and ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2784}} | ||
| + | * ''Build System:'' Fix distcheck on MacOS. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. | ||
| + | * ''Build System:'' add missing include of <code>"collectd.h"</code> 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 [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2602}} | ||
| + | * ''Configuration:'' Error handling in the config parsing code has been improved. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. | ||
| + | * ''Documentation:'' Fix typo in ''collectd.conf(5)''. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2760}} | ||
| + | * ''Documentation:'' update note on dpdkstat. Thanks to ''Maryam Tahhan''. {{Issue|2613}} | ||
| + | * ''Various plugins:'' Errors found by the static code analysis tool ''Coverity'' were fixed. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|2559}}, {{Issue|2560}}, {{Issue|2561}}, {{Issue|2562}}, {{Issue|2563}}, {{Issue|2565}}, {{Issue|2568}}, {{Issue|2575}}, {{Issue|2579}}, {{Issue|2580}}, {{Issue|2588}}, {{Issue|2589}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Ceph}}: A segfault has been fixed. Thanks to ''Aleksei Zakharov'' and ''Matthias Runge''. {{Issue|2572}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|DF}}: fix memory leak in error case. Thanks to ''Takahashi tsc''. | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Exec}}: check return value of <code>plugin_thread_create()</code>. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Exec}}: Handling of large groups has been fixed. Thanks to ''Sridhar Mallem''. {{Issue|2696}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Exec}}: Incorrect use of *putenv(3)* has been fixed. Thanks to ''Daniel Vrátil''. | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Exec}}: A deadlock related to setting environment variables after *fork()* has been fixed. Thanks to ''Daniel Vrátil''. | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Intel PMU}}: add core groups feature. Thanks to ''Kamil Wiatrowski''. {{Issue|2681}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Intel PMU}}: fix compatibility issue with collectd 5.8. Thanks to ''Kamil Wiatrowski''. | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Intel PMU}}: fix possible <code>NULL</code> pointer dereference. Thanks to ''Kamil Wiatrowski''. {{Issue|2676}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|IPMI}}: A segfault caused by a wrong data type has been fixed. Thanks to ''Mariusz Szafrański''. {{Issue|2742}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|IPMI}}: The sensor configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2629}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|memcached}}: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2612}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|NFS}}: Support for NFSv4 has been fixed. Thanks to ''Jan-Philipp Litza''. {{Issue|2076}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|NTPd}}: A memory leak in the error handling path has been fixed. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2942}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|OVS Stats}}: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk''. {{Issue|2590}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|OVS Stats}}: Fix reconnect after thread terminated. Thanks to ''Volodymyr Mytnyk'' and ''Maryam Tahhan''. {{Issue|2574}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Perl}}: A compilation failure has been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2732}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Perl}}: Fix exporting notification meta data. Thanks to [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|RRDtool}}: Handling of very large <code>GAUGE</code> metrics has been fixed. Thanks to ''Miroslav Lichvar''. {{Issue|2566}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Tail}}: Several regressions have been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2535}}, {{Issue|2587}}, {{Issue|2611}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|turbostat}}: A potential segfault due to an incorrect *free()* has been fixed. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2948}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|UUID}}: Fix hostname setting. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2723}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|virt}}: A segfault during error handling has been fixed. Thanks to ''Ruben Kerkhof''. {{Issue|2919]} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Write Kafka}}: A build failure due to a deprecated API call has been fixed. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2607}}, {{Issue|2628}}, {{Issue|2640}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Write Prometheus}}: Fix <code>MHD_USE_INTERNAL_POLLING_THREAD</code> flag in newer libmicrohttpd. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2849}} | ||
| + | * {{Plugin|Write Prometheus}}: set <code>SO_REUSEADDRESS</code> on listening socket. Thanks to ''Pavel Rochnyak''. {{Issue|2570}}, {{Issue|2673}} | ||
[[Category:Version 5.8]] | [[Category:Version 5.8]] | ||
Latest revision as of 01:41, 12 March 2020
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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
pluginfield 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
LogLevelandRteDriverLibPathconfig 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
AtomicIntegerandAtomicLonghas 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_ADMINcapability 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
Subscriberblocks. 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_disabledmetric has been changed tototal_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,VerifyPeerandCAPathoptions 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_nameparameter 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_octetshas been renamed toio_octetsbecause it actually contains the number of I/O operation by the process, not just disk related I/O. Same forio_ops(previouslyps_disk_ops). The new metricdisk_octetshas been added and is reporting disk I/O only. Add option to collect the count of active memory maps for Linux processes. TheCollectFileDescriptorandCollectContextSwitchoptions 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_openfileswithKVM_NO_FILES. Thanks to Jeremie Courreges-Anglas. #2061 - Python plugin: Extend Notification class to include metadata. Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2135
- Python plugin: The
CollectdExceptionclass 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
TimeoutandRetriesconfig 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.hheader from Linux and better support for mutliple packages. Thanks to Vincent Brillault. #2445, #2446 - Uptime plugin: Changed implementation to read from
/proc/uptimeinstead 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
AttributeandTTLoptions 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_durationto 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
ResolveIntervalandResolveJitterhave 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
BaseDiroption. 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
NULLpointer 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
GAUGEmetrics 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_THREADflag in newer libmicrohttpd. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2849 - Write Prometheus plugin: set
SO_REUSEADDRESSon listening socket. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2570, #2673
