Bumped version to 4.8.5; Updated ChangeLog.

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+2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
+       * collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
+       * network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
+         an unknown data source type.
+
+2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
+       * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
+         added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
+       * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
+         been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
+         figuring out a way to make this work.
+       * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
+         Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
+       * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
+         the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
+         for the patch.
+       * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
+         file fails.
+       * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
+         been fixed for Apache 2.*.
+       * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
+         is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
+       * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
+         warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
+         the work-around.
+       * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
+         Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
+       * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
+         packets has been fixed.
+       * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
+         this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
+       * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
+         fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
+       * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
+         be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+
+2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
+       * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
+       * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
+         incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
+         indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
+         again.
+
+2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
+       * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
+         headers, because it's a GNU extension.
+       * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
+         Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
+       * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
+         loaded.
+       * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
+       * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
+       * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
+       * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
+       * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
+       * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
+         added.
+       * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
+         containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
+       * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
+         fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
+
 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
        * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
          fixed.