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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 - 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
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
