Bump version to 5.5.0; Update ChangeLog.

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+2015-05-20, Version 5.5.0
+       * Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
+         Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
+       * Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of
+         libstatgrab ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445,
+         #795, #806, #807, #908
+       * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
+         fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
+         Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
+       * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
+         Florian Forster.
+       * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done.
+         Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+       * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon
+         and the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster,
+         Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
+       * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
+         and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
+         Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud,
+         Pierre-Yves Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc
+         Fournier.
+       * collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter
+         Chains. Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
+       * collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart
+         and systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
+         Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
+       * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks
+         to Yves Mettier. #691
+       * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
+         "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+       * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
+         exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
+         Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
+       * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
+         "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
+       * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
+         made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
+       * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
+         network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+       * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
+         Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
+       * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to
+         Florian Forster and Marc Fournier.
+       * Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
+         API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
+       * Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
+         license: the Apple_Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy,
+         GenericJMX, gmond, Java, LogFile, nginx, Notify_Desktop, NTPd, NUT,
+         olsrd, Perl, Ping, PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP,
+         StatsD, SysLog, Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless,
+         Write_Riemann and XMMS plugins, the core collectd daemon, the
+         collectdmon, collectd-nagios and collectd-tg utilities, all the
+         Targets and Matches, liboconfig, most of the "utils_*" files and the
+         plugin API.
+       * Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+       * Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
+         Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
+       * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
+         Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
+       * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
+         allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
+         Fournier. #833
+       * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
+         been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks
+         to David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
+       * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write
+         HTTP plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
+         compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
+       * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
+         connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the
+         configured "Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over
+         this behavior. Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983,
+         #993
+       * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write_HTTP
+         plugins: Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built
+         against libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
+       * Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
+         encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
+         Moreno. #946
+       * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
+         Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
+         #693
+       * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting
+         degraded batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+       * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
+         been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
+         Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
+       * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless
+         the battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+       * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
+         Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
+       * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
+         distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
+         McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
+       * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as
+         well as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
+         Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
+       * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages
+         and aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
+         Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
+         Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
+       * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
+         been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
+       * cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL
+         basis. Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
+       * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write_HTTP plugins: These plugins now also
+         follow HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+       * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has
+         been implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
+       * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
+         added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
+         Mark Wong. #317, #321
+       * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
+         Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
+       * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
+         in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney.
+         #537
+       * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
+         metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
+         Schenck. #705, #759
+       * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
+         Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
+       * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
+         metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
+       * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
+         handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
+       * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
+         added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to
+         Alexandre Moutot. #452
+       * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
+         memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
+       * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration
+         file. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
+       * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
+         Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
+       * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
+         as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
+         #360
+       * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
+         longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
+       * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported.
+         Thanks to Matt Cottingham. #622
+       * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
+         added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
+       * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as
+         percentages. Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel
+         CISSÉ. #501, #511, #559
+       * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
+         possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
+       * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485
+         serial port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
+       * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
+         platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
+       * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
+         result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
+         Jeremy Katz. #441
+       * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
+         added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves
+         Ritschard. #248, #621, #699, #824
+       * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
+         added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
+       * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
+         Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
+       * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has
+         been added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
+       * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to
+         Marek Becka. #550
+       * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor
+         families has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
+       * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
+         has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
+       * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
+         OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
+         Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
+       * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented.
+         Thanks to Ed Okerson. #252
+       * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the
+         plugin report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to
+         Chris Lundquist. #264
+       * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
+         internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite
+         has been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
+       * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping
+         older values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to
+         Stephen O'Dor. #593
+       * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
+         Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
+       * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for
+         low-profile systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
+       * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath"
+         is now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has
+         been added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick
+         Browne. #890, #751, #771
+       * Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
+         from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva,
+         Marc Fournier, Johan Bergström and Michael Spiegle. #296, #464,
+         #475, #799
+       * Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
+         in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
+       * Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has
+         been added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
+       * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been
+         added. Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
+       * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
+         drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
+       * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
+         which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
+       * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
+         implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
+       * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
+         Sergey. #939, #952
+       * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
+         Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
+       * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
+         "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+         #733
+       * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been
+         implemented. Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
+       * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
+         Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
+       * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
+         all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
+       * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
+         the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
+         #546
+       * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
+         residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to
+         Vincent Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
+       * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added.
+         Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
+       * Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
+         monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
+         Fournier. #618, #783
+       * Virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
+         Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
+       * Virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name
+         or UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
+       * Virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
+         Florian Forster.
+       * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
+         reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
+         Florian Forster. #625
+       * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
+         improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
+         "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
+       * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have
+         been added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
+       * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow
+         to reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and
+         Marc Fournier. #752, #985
+       * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
+         can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to
+         Florian Forster. #722
+       * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
+         distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
+         ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853,
+         #014
+       * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
+         configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
+       * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
+         in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
+       * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the
+         Riemann server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron.
+         #575
+       * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
+         Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
+       * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending
+         events to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by
+         default. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
+       * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been
+         added, which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe
+         Zada. #706
+       * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
+         Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
+       * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a
+         stream processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie
+         and Marc Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
+       * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a
+         scalable time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian
+         Forster, Dallin Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
+         #703, #772, #945
+       * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
+         Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
+       * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache
+         Zookeeper "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
+
 2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
        * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
          KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc

diff --git a/version-gen.sh b/version-gen.sh
index 460c6e9d1ac6f3e834a08421962bcead4c9fbb09..b09be8e78227f350edbe8fc6bf96634f67a0a057 100755 (executable)
--- a/version-gen.sh
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-DEFAULT_VERSION="5.4.2.git"
+DEFAULT_VERSION="5.5.0.git"
 
 VERSION="`git describe 2> /dev/null | grep collectd | sed -e 's/^collectd-//'`"