Version 5.9

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Version 5.9 is planned to release on Saturday, March 16th 2019.

This page is created to prepare Changelog information for actual release. Contributions are welcome.

Changes

Release 5.9.0 (wip)

New features

  • Build System: configure.ac: option --with-libxml2 has been added. Thanks to Dimitrios Apostolou, Pavel Rochnyak. #2864
  • Build System: configure.ac: run dpdk build tests only if pkgconfig fails. Thanks to Luca Boccassi, Pavel Rochnyak. #3015
  • Build System: The "df" plugin is now built when getmntent_r() is available. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3095
  • Build System: The ability to turn on collectd "debug" feature in RPMs has been added. Thanks to dehotot. #2755
  • collectd: A new UNKNOWN state as the initial state of metrics has been added. Thanks to Luis Fernández Álvarez, Florian Foster. #2976
  • collectd: Base port to Windows. Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2810
  • collectd: Code ownership of five plugins has been handed out to folks from Intel. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3053
  • collectd: config parser: Improved error reporting on global options. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2813
  • collectd: daemon: make plugin_dispatch_multivalue() obey write queue limits. Thanks to Adam Romanek. #2898
  • collectd: Plugin name field has been added to plugin context to improve error reporting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2821
  • collectd-tg: Use CLOCK_REALTIME for collectd-tg times. Thanks to Andrew Bays. #2837
  • tree-wide: Don't initialize static pointers to NULL, use bool from stdbool.h (instead of _Bool). Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2771, #2772
  • tree-wide: Use interval value from plugin context, do not set vl->interval in plugins more. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2847
  • tree-wide: Utilities and libraries have been moved to src/utils/. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2961
  • AMPQ1 plugin: A new plugin to write to amqp1 protocol. Thanks to Andy Smith. #2618
  • Chrony plugin: Ignoring late responses has been added. Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar, Pavel Rochnyak. #2896
  • CPUFreq plugin: Read number of p-state transitions and time spent in each p-state. Thanks to Sexton Rory. #2803
  • cURL, cURL-XML plugins: Option Interval has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2847
  • Disk plugin: Report number of in progress disk IO requests on FreeBSD. Thanks to Nathan Huff. #2878
  • Exec plugin: Dynamic allocation of grname buffer has been added. Thanks to sreedi, Florian Foster. #2937
  • GPU NVML plugin: New plugin to collect NVIDIA GPU stats. Thanks to Evgeny Naumov. #2923
  • Intel RDT plugin: Support for groups of PIDs has been added. Thanks to Wojciech Andralojc, Mateusz Starzyk, Michal Aleksinski. #2891
  • IPMI plugin: Config options SELSensor and SELIgnoreSelected have been added. Thanks to Mariusz Szafranski. #2796
  • Modbus plugin: The Scale and Shift metrics have been added. Thanks to cekstam. #2729
  • Netlink plugin: Handle new counter from Linux kernel version 4.6+. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2767
  • Network plugin: Option BindAddress has been added. Thanks to Ofir Hermesh. #2831
  • OVS Stats plugin: Extended metrics ovs-dpdk have been added. Thanks to Matteo Croce, Ryan McCabe. #3000
  • OVS Stats plugin: Support of bond interface and a InterfaceStats config option have been added. Thanks to Andrew Bays. #2880
  • PCIe Errors plugin: New plugin to read PCIe errors. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski. #2733
  • Redis plugin: Keyspace hitratio metric has been added, metric operations_per_second has been removed, an option for connecting via UNIX socket has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2838, #2845, #2904
  • RouterOS plugin: Support for temperature and voltage data has been added, use MAC-address when Radio-name is missing. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2851, #2854
  • RRDCacheD plugin: Time resolution has been improved to microseconds. Thanks to Brian T. O'Neill. #3065
  • Sensors plugin: Checks for upper limit of SENSORS_API_VERSION have been removed, support for libsensors older than 3.0.0 has been dropped. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3013, #3014
  • SNMP plugin: New options PluginInstance, TypeInstance, TypeInstanceOID, PluginInstanceOID, FilterOID, FilterValues and FilterIgnoreSelected have been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2817, #2819
  • SNMP Agent plugin: Multiple key indexes to snmp table and other new features have been added, coverity scan issues have been fixed. Thanks to Marcin Mozejko. #2702, #2844
  • Swap plugin: Support for Linux 2.4 has been dropped. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2979
  • Turbostat plugin: New metrics P-states, Turboboost, Platform TDP, Uncore bus ratio have been added. Thanks to Sexton Rory. #2806
  • Turbostat plugin: Parameter RestoreAffinityPolicy has been added. Thanks to Pablo Llopis. #2627
  • virt plugin: Allow read Hostname from libvirt metadata. Thanks to Mehdi ABAAKOUK. #2807
  • virt plugin: Block info statistics for disk devices have been added. Thanks to Radoslaw Jablonski. #2874
  • Wireless plugin: A bitrate metric has been added. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2950
  • Write Prometheus plugin: Option Host has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2969

Bugfixes / cleanups / refactorings

  • Build System: A warning that pkgdatadir and pkglibdir were previously defined has been fixed, additional plugins have been enabled, GNULIB_DIR has been added to LDFLAGS in configure.ac on Windows. Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2907, #2885, #2882
  • Build System: Including utils/mount/mount.h has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3097
  • Build System: The amount of output from ./configure has been reduced, rendering of collectd-lua(5) manpage has been fixed, don't hide errors when creating manpage. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3086, #3088, #3092
  • collectd: A bug in c_avl_iterator_prev has been fixed. Thanks to volth. #2917
  • collectd: A stringop compiler warning has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Juan Osorio Robles. #3021
  • collectd: An invalid memory access in the strjoin() function has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3063
  • collectd: collectd binary has been refactored. Thanks to Sean Campbell, Sebastian Harl. #2745
  • collectd: collectdmon cannot exit command line options parse loop has been fixed. Thanks to takahashi-tsc. #2774
  • collectd: Handle failure of simple config callbacks. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3085
  • collectd: Parsing option for avoiding making BaseDir has been fixed. Thanks to Mariusz Białończyk. #2856
  • collectd: Remove empty cmd_listval_t data structure and related no-op code. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2779
  • collectd: src/daemon/common.h: A typo has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2944
  • collectd: src/utils_format_json.c: Remove chatty debug messages. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2938
  • collectd: Stop poisoning function in debug mode. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2804
  • collectd: The number of allocations when parsing types.db has been reduced. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3091
  • collectd: The organization of the source repository has been improved. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2961
  • tree-wide: cleanup: cf_util_get* instead of local copy in plugins, prefixed error reporting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2833
  • tree-wide: Some style issues have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3022
  • tree-wide: sstrerror() has been replaced with STRERRNO. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2735
  • collectd: Endianness checks for AIX have been added, gcc issue on Mac byteorder has been fixed. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #2761, #2741
  • AMQP1 plugin: Potential memory leaks found via scan-build have been fixed, a typo in error log message has been fixed, cleanups. Thanks to Andy Smith, Andrew Bays, Ruben Kerkhof. #2802, #2876, #2797
  • Barometer plugin: Support to libi2c-4.0 has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2783
  • Disk plugin: In linux, reset the disk when it disappears from /proc/diskstats. Thanks to Nikita Kozlov, Pavel Rochnyak. #2551
  • DPDK Events, DPDK Stats plugins: Buffer size for parsing lcores has been increased, a deprecation warning has been fixed, runtime config file path has been fixed. Thanks to Kevin Laatz. #2722, #2840, #2924
  • GPS plugin: Build with gpsd version 3.18 has been fixed. Thanks to Baruch Siach. #2947
  • Intel RDT plugin: Compiler warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3104
  • Log Logstash plugin: Non-portable struct initialization with {} has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2988
  • LUA plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3090
  • Netlink plugin: Truncation warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2777
  • NFS plugin: Message Unexpected number of fields for NFSv4 server statistics: 62 has been fixed. Thanks to Yedidyah Bar David. #2076
  • NFS plugin: Number of fields for NFSv4 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan-Philipp Litza. #2915
  • Notify Email plugin: All notification parameters have been included into email. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2834
  • NTPd plugin: Don't treat normal peers as refclocks. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2822
  • OAuth plugin: src/utils_oauth.c: Renew OAuth tokens 30 seconds before they expire. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2970
  • OVS Stats plugin: A macro to populate counters list has been added, value of OpenFlow has been corrected. Thanks to Matteo Croce. #2966, #2963
  • OVS Stats plugin: Code style, cleanup and improvements. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3011, #3012
  • OVS Stats, OVS Events plugins: utils_ovs: Avoid potential access of freed memory, fixes. Thanks to Ciara Loftus, Mark Kavanagh. #2801, #2731
  • Python plugin: A compilation warning with Python 3.7 has been fixed. Thanks to Manoj Srivastava. #3042
  • Redis plugin: Bugfixes, extended error reporting, persistent connections and parallel polling, ability to select db for queries has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak, skob. #2826, #2789
  • Router OS plugin: Unset radio-name showing up as "(null)" has been fixed. Thanks to melak. #2740
  • RRDCacheD plugin: Cleanup rrdcached plugin a bit. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3080
  • RRDTool plugin: Error reporting has been extended. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2825
  • Sensors plugin: Support for humidity sensors has been added. Thanks to Sarah Fischmann. #2913
  • Sensu, OVS Stat, Turbostat, virt, OAuth, Write Prometheus, Intel RDT plugins: Compiler warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3093, #3098, #3099, #3100, #3102, #3103, #3104
  • virt plugin: Code do {} while(0) around macro has been removed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2579
  • virt plugin: Compiler warnings, a segfault in libvirt, typo in error messages have been fixed. Thanks to Antoine Naud, Ruben Kerkhof, sarah niuxu18. #2808, #2919, #2957
  • virt plugin: Optional virDomainGetCPUStats() has been removed from main flow, cleanup. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2972, #2978
  • virt plugin: Tracking of VM state changes has been fixed. Thanks to Radoslaw Jablonski. #2701
  • Write MongoDB plugin: Plugin dependencies have been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3010
  • Write Prometheus plugin: A compilation issue on Mac OS X has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3059
  • Write Redis plugin: Bug "max_set_duration deletes unexpected data" has been fixed. Thanks to takahashi-tsc. #2773
  • Write Stackdriver plugin: Potential NULL dereference and error reporting have been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2960

Documentation

  • collectd.conf(5): a typo has been fixed, the tail plugin's documentation has been improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Florian Foster. #3087, #2994
  • collectd.conf.pod: virt: Instances option has been documented, a clarifying example has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak, Fabien Wernli. #2990, #2903
  • collectd-python: Import configuration option has been documented. Thanks to Tyler Harper. #2985
  • collectd-snmp.pod: Document thread usage correctly. Thanks to Nathan Ward. #3078
  • CONTRIBUTING.md: Improve wording around ChangeLog; fix example, document the new change log requirement / behavior. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3061, #3054
  • docs/review_comments.md: document with frequent review comments has been started. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2964
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