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-2012-02-05, Version 4.10.6
+2013-04-09, Version 5.3.0
+ * collectd: The "Include" statements can now be limited to include
+ only matching files in a directory. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
+ patch.
+ * collectd: Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This
+ improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act
+ as a "server". Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Dan Fandrich for
+ reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
+ * aggregation plugin: Selection of value lists is now possible using
+ regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric
+ can now be set via the configuration file.
+ * apcups plugin: The "ReportSeconds" option has been implemented.
+ * curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers
+ has been added. Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
+ * curl_xml plugin: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks
+ to Dan Fandrich for his patch.
+ * dbi plugin: Support for numeric options has been added. The
+ "Host" option has been added. Thanks to Daniel Hilst for his patch.
+ * disk plugin: Support for systems with >256 has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Greg Mason for his patch.
+ * libvirt plugin: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks
+ to Johan Wirén for his patch.
+ * netapp plugin: Support for "SnapVault", "VFiler" and deduplication /
+ compression and quota metrics. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his
+ patches and teamix GmbH for sponsoring this work.
+ * postgresql plugin: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks
+ to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
+ * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: The "CreateFilesAsync" option has been
+ implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created
+ asynchronously, which improved throughput of "server" instances.
+ Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
+ * tail_csv plugin: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV
+ files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to Kris Nielander for
+ his patch.
+ * write_mongodb plugin: Authentication options have been added.
+ * write_riemann plugin: This new plugin allows sending metrics to
+ Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to
+ Pierre-Yves Ritschard for his work.
+
+2013-04-08, Version 5.2.2
+ * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
+ libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
+ Installation of the Perl bindings has been improved / fixed. Thanks
+ to Sebastian Harl for his patch.
+ * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
+ * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
+ write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
+ redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
+ have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
+ Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
+ * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
+ caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
+ to Nathan Huff for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
+ Tomas Doran for his patch.
+ * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
+ * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
+ been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
+ * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
+ * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
+ to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
+ * pf plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
+ * postgresql plugin: Build issues have been fixed.
+ * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
+ * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
+ "jkrabbe" for the patch.
+ * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
+ * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
+ "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
+ patch.
+
+2013-01-27, Version 5.2.1
+ * Build system: "make distcheck" has been fixed. Build fixes Solaris
+ and systems without gcrypt. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patches.
+ * collectd: The complaint mechanism was fixed. It reported messages
+ more frequently than intended.
+ * collectd-tg: A manual page has been added.
+ * 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.
+ * postgresql plugin: A memory leak in the writing code has been fixed.
+ A use-after-free issue that happened when more than one database was
+ configured was fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for fixing these
+ problems.
+ * redis plugin: A build failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard for his patch.
+ * varnish plugin: Fix a problem with instances without name.
+ * write_graphite plugin: A regression which rendered the
+ "SeparateInstances" and "AlwaysAppendDS" options unusable has been
+ fixed. A failed assertion when using types with many data sources
+ has been fixed. Improve reporting of connection errors to not spam
+ log files too much. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard for reporting
+ the logging problem.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: Fix the type used for mutex misses. Thanks to Yves
+ Mettier for reporting this bug.
+
+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.
+
+2013-04-08, Version 5.1.3
+ * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
+ libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
+ * collectd: Fixed read callback scheduling at startup.
+ * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
+ write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
+ redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
+ have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
+ Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
+ * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
+ caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
+ to Nathan Huff for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
+ Tomas Doran for his patch.
+ * netapp plugin: Fix the interval with which values are dispatched.
+ * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
+ been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
+ * nfs plugin: A compilation problem has been fixed.
+ * notify_email plugin: Add a character set to the mail header. Thanks
+ to Manuel Cissé for his patch.
+ * rrdcached plugin: Connect to the daemon from the read callback.
+ * snmp plugin: Matching of SNMP subtrees has been improved. Thanks to
+ "jkrabbe" for the patch.
+ * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
+ * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
+ "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
+ 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.
+ * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
+ "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
+ * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
+ the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
+ * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
+ added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
+ * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
+ directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
+ * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
+ addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard for his patch.
+ * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
+ ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
+ regex matching.
+ * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
+ states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
+ for his patch.
+ * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
+ added.
+ * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
+ Ioiart for his patch.
+ * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
+ Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
+ * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
+ Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
+ * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
+ added.
+ * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
+ Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
+ * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
+ * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
+ Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
+ * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
+ Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
+ * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
+ Aaron Brady for his patch.
+ * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
+ Jérôme Renard for his patches.
+ * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
+ lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
+ and Chris Lundquist for their work.
+ * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
+ lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
+ database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
+ work.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
+ Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
+ * 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
+ for fixing this. Adresses some issues with building the iptables
+ plugin under Gentoo.
+ * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
+ issue.
+ * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
+ * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
+ * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
+ Opter for his patch.
+ * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
+ truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
+ patch.
+ * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
+ was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
+ endless loop.
+ * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
+ added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
+ patch.
+ * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
+ write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
+ bug.
+ * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
+ been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
+ then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
+ * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
+ runtime has been fixed.
+
+2012-02-19, Version 5.0.3
+ * Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
+ plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
+ version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
+ his patch.
+ * csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
+ DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
+ Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
+ * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
+ handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
+ * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
+ "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
+ Roos for his patch.
+ * oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
+ been fixed.
+ * python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patch.
+ * interfaces plugin: The change which was supposed to ignore "bogus"
+ interfaces has been reverted, since it ignored legit interfaces, such
+ as bonding pseudo-devices as well.
+
+2012-01-21, Version 5.0.2
+ * curl_xml plugin: Fix handling of file:// and other URLs (which don't
+ follow HTTP status codes). Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch!
+ * df plugin: Fix handling of negative "available" counts. This can
+ occur with some file systems, for example UFS. Thanks to Toni Ylenius
+ for his patch.
+ * interface plugin: "mac" interfaces are now ignored on Solaris. These
+ pseudo-interfaces occur multiple times, causing warnings. Also switch
+ to 64-bit counters on Solaris, improving overflow behavior for
+ high-speed interfaces. Thanks to Eddy Geez and Fabien Wernli for
+ their patches.
+ * memory plugin: Account kernel and unused memory under Solaris. Thanks
+ to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
+ * network plugin: A bug in the interaction between the Network plugin
+ and filter chains has been fixed: When a filter modified a field such
+ as the hostname, subsequent values in the same network packets could
+ have ended up using the modified name rather than the original name.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl for identifying the problem.
+ * oracle plugin: A memory leak has been fixed in the parameter handling.
+ * python plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel
+ for fixing this bug!
+
+2011-10-07, Version 5.0.1
+ * collectd: A mutex leak has been fixed in the meta data code. Thanks
+ to Rafal Lesniak for his patch.
+ * collectd: Compatibility fixes for GCC 4.6 have been applied. Thanks
+ to Peter Green for his patch.
+ * csv plugin: The line buffer size has been increased. Thanks to Colin
+ McCabe for the patch.
+ * curl_json plugin: Don't use the "parent" node to build the type
+ instance, if it is empty. Compatibility with libyajl 2 has been
+ added. Thanks to "spupykin" of the Arch Linux project for the initial
+ code. Formatting of time has been fixed in the JSON module.
+ * exec plugin: Fix the timestamp value passed to notification scripts.
+ Thanks to Alexander Kovalenko for fixing this.
+ * iptables plugin: Fix linking with some versions of libiptc.
+ * irq plugin: Fix support for interrupts under Linux. The old code
+ assumed that interrupts have a numeric value -- this is no longer
+ true for Linux. Thanks to Bostjan Skufca for implementing this.
+ * notify_desktop plugin: Compatibility with libnotify 0.7 has been
+ added. Thanks to Samuli Suominen for his patch.
+ * processes plugin: Fix handling of regular expressions containing
+ spaces. Thanks for Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
+ * rrdtool, rrdcached plugins: Improve precision of the XFF parameter.
+ Previously, values like 0.999 would have been rounded to 1.0. Thanks
+ to Francois-Xavier Bourlet for fixing this.
+ * varnish plugin: Fix data type handling of some metrics. Some values
+ were submitted as gauge even though they were derives.
+ * Various plugin: Set a multi-threading flag in libcurl. Thanks to Mike
+ Flisher for the fix.
+
+2011-03-28, Version 5.0.0
+ * collectd: The "FQDNLookup" option is now enabled by default.
+ * collectd: The internal representation of time has been changed to
+ allow a higher accuracy than one second.
+ * collectdcmd: This new command line utility can send various commands
+ to collectd using the UnixSock plugin. Thanks to Håkon Dugstad
+ Johnsen and Sebastian Harl for their code.
+ * collectd-nagios: The "-m" option has been implemented (treat NaNs as
+ critical).
+ * collectd-tg: Traffic generator creating bogus network traffic
+ compatible to the Network plugin. This utility can be used to
+ stress-test new write plugins and collectd in general.
+ * libcollectdclient: Creating and sending network packets has been
+ added to the collectd client library.
+ * All data sets: The data source name of all data sets with exactly
+ one data source has been changed to "value".
+ * All plugins: All "counter" data sources have been converted to
+ "derive" data sources. All plugins now use "derive" by default, but
+ plugins such as the network plugin can still handle "counter", of
+ course. The minimum value of all derive data sources is zero, the
+ maximum value is unspecified.
+ * amqp plugin: The new AMQP plugin can send data to and receive data
+ from an AMQP broker. Thanks to Sebastien Pahl for his code.
+ * apache plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
+ Support for the IBM HTTP Server has been added. Thanks to Manuel
+ Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
+ * contextswitch plugin: Support for sysctlbyname(3) has been added.
+ Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum for his patch.
+ * df plugin: The default behavior has been changed to be equivalent to
+ the "ReportReserved" behavior of v4.
+ * dns plugin: Improved RFC 1035 name parsing has been imported from
+ "dnstop".
+ * exec plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
+ * GenericJMX plugin: The "InstancePrefix" option has been added to
+ "Connection" blocks.
+ * hddtemp plugin: The "TranslateDevicename" config option has been
+ removed.
+ * interface plugin: Use the "plugin instance" to store the interface
+ value.
+ * libvirt plugin: The "InterfaceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
+ to Ruben Kerkhof for his patch.
+ * lpar plugin: New plugins for "logical partitions", a virtualization
+ technique of POWER CPUs. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his code and
+ patience.
+ * modbus plugin: Support for libmodbus 2.9.2 has been added and the
+ license has been changed to LGPLv2.1.
+ * mysql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed. The
+ data sets used have been improved.
+ * network plugin: The default buffer size has been increased to
+ 1452 bytes.
+ * perl plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
+ * postgresql plugin: Backwards compatibility code has been removed.
+ * redis plugin: Plugin for collecting statistics from Redis, a key-
+ value store, has been added. Thanks to Andres J. Diaz for his code.
+ * swap plugin: Implement collection of physical and virtual memory
+ statistics under Solaris. The new default is collecting physical
+ memory. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for his patches.
+ * threshold plugin: The threshold configuration has been moved into
+ this separate plugin.
+ * unixsock plugin: The "DeleteSocket" option has been added.
+ * varnish plugin: The new Varnish plugin reads statistics from
+ Varnish, a web accelerator. Thanks to Jérôme Renard and Marc
+ Fournier for their contributions.
+ * write_redis: New plugin for writing data to Redis, a key-value
+ store.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: The data sets have been replaced by more elegant
+ alternatives.
+ * v5upgrade target: Target for converting v4 data sets to the v5
+ schema.
+
+2013-04-07, Version 4.10.9
+ * Build system: A bad interaction between the Java detection code and
+ libltdl has been fixed. Thanks to Dave Cottlehuber for his patch.
+ * apache, ascent, bind, curl, curl_json, curl_xml, nginx and
+ write_http plugins: Portability fixes, protection from infinite
+ redirect loops, improved error handling and incorrect dereferences
+ have been fixed. Most of these are related to the cURL library.
+ Thanks to Dan Fandrich for his patches.
+ * logfile plugin: Flush the output file handle. This works around
+ caching when logging to STDOUT and redirecting into a file. Thanks
+ to Nathan Huff for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Build issues under FreeBSD and initialization have
+ been fixed. Thanks to Ed Schouten for his patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Fix a memory leak in the error handling. Thanks to
+ Tomas Doran for his patch.
+ * thermal plugin: The initialization of dispatched value lists has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Markus Knetschke for his patch.
+ * unixsock plugin: Parsing of options with an underscore, e.g.
+ "plugin_instance" has been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert for his
+ patch.
+
+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
+ plugin under Gentoo.
+ * libcollectdclient: A memory leak in the lcc_getval() function has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Jason Schmidlapp for finding and fixing this
+ issue.
+ * bind plugin: The use of 'QType" types has been fixed.
+ * df plugin: Fixed compiler issue under Mac OS X 10.7.
+ * conntrack plugin: Support zero as legitimate value. Thanks to Louis
+ Opter for his patch.
+ * memcached plugin: Increased the size of a static buffer, which was
+ truncating status messages form memcached. Thanks to Timon for the
+ patch.
+ * network plugin: Forwarding of notifications has been disabled. This
+ was a contition not checked for before, which may retult in an
+ endless loop.
+ * processes plugin: Support for process names with spaces has been
+ added to the Linux implementation. Thanks to Darrell Bishop for his
+ patch.
+ * perl plugin: A race condition in several callbacks, including log and
+ write callbacks, has been fixed. Thanks to "Rrpv" for reporting this
+ bug.
+ * snmp plugin: A bug when casting unsigned integers to gauge values has
+ been fixed: Unsigned integers would be cast to a signed integer and
+ then to a gauge, possibly resulting in a negative value.
+ * tcpconns plugin: Compilation with newer versions of the FreeBSD
+ runtime has been fixed.
+
+2012-02-19, Version 4.10.6
* Build system: Fix problems when building the ipvs and iptables
plugins. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patch. A bashism in the
version-gen.sh script has been fixed. Thanks to Jo-Philipp Wich for
* csv and rrdtool plugins: Print a more helpful error message when the
DataDir is a symlink pointing to a non-existing location. Thanks to
Jonathan Nieder for his patch.
+ * exec plugin: Fix a problem when using select(2) to read from file
+ handles. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
+ * network plugin: An incorrect error message in the handling of the
+ "Interface" configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie
+ Roos for his patch.
* oracle plugin: A potential endless loop in the error handling has
been fixed.
* python plugin: A crash bug in the configuration handling has been