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+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.