Performance Co-Pilot :: News
2009, Oct 9 PCP 3.0.0! Dynamic namespace extension by domain agents; major RPM package restructuring for inclusion in Fedora; minor bug fixes.
2009, Sep 1 PCP 2.9.1, PCP GUI 1.4.5 and PCP Glider 0.9.1 all released this week; minor bug fixes and a Samba PMDA added into base PCP. In the development tree, pmview now runs on Windows.
2009, July 31 PCP 2.9.0, PCP GUI 1.4.4 and PCP Glider 0.9.0 all released this week; numerous bug fixes but also new Bind 9.4 and PowerDNS PMDAs.
2009, July 1 PCP 2.8.10 and PCP Glider 0.8.0 released. Further Win32 improvements and MMV agent reworked.
2009, June 10 PCP 2.8.8, PCP GUI 1.4.3, and PCP Glider 0.0.6 released. Improved PMCD memory footprint, and fully integrated into Win32 services via installer.
2009, May 22 PCP 2.8.5, PCP GUI 1.4.1, and PCP Glider 0.0.3 released, after a bug fixing frenzy. First production deployment of PCP Glider today.
2009, May 12 PCP 2.8.4 released, with bash tab-completion for metric names thanks to Roman Revyakin.
2009, May 12 PCP Glider 0.0.2 released, with support for Windows Server 2008
2009, May 5 PCP GUI 1.4.0 released, with a fix for the long-standing font sizing issue affecting a number of Linux (X11) users.
2009, Apr 9 PCP 2.8.0 released.
2009, Apr 9 Added a NetFilter PMDA for Linux, thanks to Rodney McKee.
2009, Apr 1 Generic memory mapped value PMDA and client library merged, Lustre PMDA merged, both included into snapshot 2.7.8-20090401.
2009, Mar 16 Merge the pmimport utility and API for converting external data into PCP archives into PCP source tree.
2009, Feb 13 Bonding PMDA, for bonded interfaces under Linux, included into snapshot 2.7.8-20090213.
2009, Feb 9 Packaging and name change for kmchart and kmtime - they are now shipped in the pcp-gui package as the new versions of pmchart and pmtime.
2009, Jan 19 Ten years on, second PCP talk given at Linux.Conf.Au (Hobart, Australia this time).
2008, Dec 1 PCP::LogSummary Perl module included in snapshot 2.7.8-20081201.
2008, Nov 17 Infiniband and KVM PMDAs included into snapshot 2.7.8-20081117. Support for NFSv4 metrics also added in this snapshot.
2008, Sep 15 VMware PMDA included into development snapshot 2.7.7-20080915.
2008, Sep 1 First stable Perl PMDA API version incorporated into development snapshot 2.7.4-20081001. This includes several additional agents using this infrastructure - mysql, systemtap, dbping, memcache.
2007, March 6 First stable version of kmchart (1.0) is released.
2007, March 6 First upload of PCP and kmchart packages to the Debian archives.
2007, Nov 21 First release candidate images for kmchart 1.0 made available.
2007, Sep 7 PCP 2.7.4 released.
2007, May 11 PCP 2.7.1 released.
2006, Jan 2 Initial kmchart source release.
2005, Dec 1 PCP 2.5.0 released.
2004, Aug 5 PCP 2.4.0 released.
2003, Oct 6 PCP 2.3.2 released.
2003, July 16 PCP 2.3.1 released.
2003, April 2 PCP 2.3.0 released.
2003, February Alan Hoyt contributed a Solaris port, including a Solaris platform PMDA.
2002, December SGI releases open source version of the PCP Quality Assurance Suite
2002, December Mike Mason contributes code for a large number of new Linux metrics, enough to support libgtop.
2002, October Todd Davis announces that Intel Telco Software Program Development Team adopts PCP in the Carrier Grade Linux Enhancements
2001, Dec 11 PCP 2.2.2 released
2001, June 21 PCP 2.2.1 released with important security fixes.
2001, May 31 PCP 2.2.0 released
2001, March 27 PCP 2.2.0 (IRIX version) released
2000, Nov 7 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases updated PCPMON package, with improved archive support, screen-shot saving, command-line mode, and numerous bug fixes.
2000, Oct 20 PCP 2.1.10 released
2000, June 14 PCP 2.1.7 released
2000, June 9 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases updated PCPMON package, with support for PCP archives
2000, May 22 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases updated MySQL PMDA, adding processlist metrics, supporting MySQL versions 3.21.x - 3.23.x
2000, May 18 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases initial MySQL PMDA, exporting MySQL server status and configuration variables.
2000, May 10 Troy Dawson (dawson@fnal.gov) and Ray Pasetes make Linux CPU hardware inventory metrics' source available, SGI integrates into Linux PMDA.
2000, April 16 Luc Stepniewski (lstep@free.fr) makes initial Debian PCP package available
2000, April 10 Michal Kara (lemming@arthur.plbohnice.cz) releases PCPMON 1.0.1, a graphical PCP monitor using GTK.
2000, March 14 Eric Roman (eroman@lbl.gov) ports PCP 2.1.4 to RedHat 6.0 for the Alpha platform.
2000, Feb 11 PCP 2.1.4 released
2000, Feb 2 PCP features in LinuxWorld at New York, including bundling of PCP-based performance monitoring in SGI's ISE (internet serving) and ACE (HPC clusters) solutions
2000, Feb 1 PCPHPC 1.0 (IRIX) released with support for monitoring of DMF, HIPPI and MPI activity (calls, time and messages in MPI library)
1999, Dec 7 First Open Source release, PCP 2.1.1
1999, Nov 15 PCP featured showing performance of SGI's IRIX and Linux clusters running real applications at Supercomputing '99, Portland.
1999, Sep 1 Prototype PCP for Linux demo at Interact + PCIT (with Linux Users of Victoria), Melbourne, Australia
1999, Aug 10 PCP 2.1 (IRIX) released
1999, Aug 8 Prototype PCP for Linux demo at LinuxWorld, San Jose, CA
1999, Aug 8 Prototype PCP for Linux demo at SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, CA
1999, July 09 Prototype PCP for Linux demo and talk at Conference of Australian Linux Users, Melbourne, Australia
1999, May 15 Prototype PCP for Linux demo at LinuxExpo, Raleigh, NC
1998, July 21 PCP for Webservers 2.0 (IRIX) released
1998, March 31 PCP 2.0 (IRIX) released