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+2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
+ * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
+ Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
+ * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
+ per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
+ his work.
+ * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
+ looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
+ plugin, for example.
+ * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
+ in the binary format has been added.
+ * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
+ value lists into one.
+ * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
+ output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
+ * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
+ Thomas Meson for the patch.
+ * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
+ Manuel Rozada for his patch.
+ * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
+ Mac OS X version.
+ * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
+ configured.
+ * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
+ to "Davide Guerri" for the patch.
+ * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
+ Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
+ * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
+ behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
+ Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
+ * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
+ * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
+ packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
+ for their work.
+ * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
+ Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
+ * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
+ Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
+ * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
+ Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
+ * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
+ "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
+ * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
+ version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
+ "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
+ * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
+ for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.
+
+2013-01-25, Version 5.1.2
+ * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Thanks to Yves
+ Mettier for his patches.
+ * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
+ more frequently than intended.
+ * dns plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
+ Ed Schouten for his patch.
+ * ethstat plugin: Fix the "Map" config option. An incorrectly used
+ character pointer may lead to a segmentation fault.
+ * network plugin: Build issues on FreeBSD have been fixed. Thanks to
+ Ed Schouten for his patch.
+ * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
+ * write_graphite: Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
+ log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
+ this problem.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
+ Mettier for reporting this bug.
+
+2012-11-11, Version 5.1.1
+ * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
+ unwanted permission bits.
+ * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
+ * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
+ for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
+ under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
+ * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
+ have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
+ * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
+ Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
+ * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
+ correctly.
+ * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
+ * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
+ Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
+ * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
+ reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
+ * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
+ "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
+ by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
+ seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
+ Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
+ * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
+ define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
+ Daniel Sutto.
+ * ethstat plugin: An off-by-one error and potential use of
+ uninitialized memory has been fixed. Thanks to Mark Voelker for
+ reporting these problems.
+ * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
+ * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
+ to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
+ * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
+ errors.
+ * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
+ changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
+ "KIvosak" for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Chris Lundquist for his patch.
+ * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
+ * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
+ ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
+ much faster.
+ * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
+ and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
+ * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
+ "biancalana" for the fix.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
+ warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
+ * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
+ added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
+ added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
+ problems.
+ * varnish plugin: Support for multiple instances of Varnish 3 has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Jonathan Huot for the patch.
+ * write_mongodb plugin: Add compatibility with libmongo 0.6.0 and
+ later. Thanks to Chris Lundquist for this patch.
+
2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
* Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
been removed.
* scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
+2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
+ * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
+ unwanted permission bits.
+ * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
+ * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
+ for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
+ under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
+ * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
+ have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
+ * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
+ Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
+ * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
+ correctly.
+ * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
+ * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
+ Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
+ * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
+ reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
+ * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
+ "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
+ by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
+ seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
+ Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
+ * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
+ define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
+ Daniel Sutto.
+ * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
+ * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
+ to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
+ * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
+ errors.
+ * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
+ changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
+ "KIvosak" for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Chris Lundquist for his patch.
+ * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
+ * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
+ ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
+ much faster.
+ * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
+ and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
+ * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
+ "biancalana" for the fix.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
+ warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
+ * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
+ added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
+ added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
+ problems.
2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
* Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
* v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
schema.
+2012-11-11, Version 4.10.8
+ * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
+ unwanted permission bits.
+ * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
+ * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
+ for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
+ under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
+ * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
+ have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
+ * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
+ * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
+ reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
+ * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
+ "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
+ by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
+ seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
+ Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
+ * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
+ define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
+ Daniel Sutto.
+ * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
+ * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
+ errors.
+ * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
+ changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
+ "KIvosak" for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Chris Lundquist for his patch.
+ * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
+ * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
+ ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
+ much faster.
+ * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
+ and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
+ warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
+ * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
+ added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
+ added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
+ problems.
+
2012-04-01, Version 4.10.7
* Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang
for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables