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+2016-07-26, Version 5.4.3
+ * Build system: A deprecation warning has been removed. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster.
+ * Build system: An ordering issue when build the AMQP plugin was
+ corrected. Thanks to Shahul Hameed.
+ * Build system: Building the gmond plugin against recent libganglia
+ versions has been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1129
+ * Build system: "collectd-tg" now builds on AIX. Thanks to Manuel Luis
+ Sanmartín Rozada. #542
+ * Build system: "version-gen.sh" portablility was improved. Thanks to
+ Marc Fournier and Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Build system: Compiling utils_dns.c on Solaris has beed fixed. Thanks
+ to Yves Mettier, Dagobert Michelsen and Florian Forster. #348
+ * Build system: Default JDK detection got improved. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
+ * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Build system: notify_email build options got corrected to make it
+ build on non-GNU libc systems. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Build system: Protobuf building and logging has been improved. Thanks
+ to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Build system: The "make distcheck" target was fixed to properly handle
+ java build artifacts. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * Build system: The configure script got fixed to work properly when
+ called with "CC="gcc -Wall -Werror"" . Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Build system: The configure script will now fail if pkg-config isn't
+ available. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Build system: The users plugin now builds properly on Solaris when
+ libstatgrab is available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #1061
+ * Build system: Various fixes have been done to improve library
+ detection on FreeBSD. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * collectd2html: Several perl errors have been corrected. Thanks to Ruud
+ van Melick. #1103
+ * collectd: A global gauge format-string is now used to avoid loss of
+ precision. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1039
+ * collectd: A race condition at plugin initialization time was fixed.
+ Thanks to Jan Andres. #1316
+ * collectd: Autoloading now properly sets plugin context, allowing
+ plugins to determine the interval. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1069
+ * collectd: Empty "Plugin" blocks are now supported by the configuration
+ file parser. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1035
+ * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
+ in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * collectd: Writing to a closed TCP socket is now properly handled.
+ Thanks to Tamás Földesi. #1104
+ * Documentation: iptables plugin: IPv6 configuration option has been
+ added to the collectd.conf(5) manpage. Thanks to 'Marc Fournier''.
+ #1496
+ * AMQP plugin: The plugin was fixed to build against librabbitmq 0.6.0.
+ Thanks to Remi Collet. #1008
+ * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
+ added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Apache plugin: The plugin was extended to parse the whole response,
+ required to support Apache versions greater than 2.4.17. Thanks to
+ Marc Fournier and Florian Forster. #1170, #1343
+ * APC UPS plugin: Log messages are now prefixed with the plugin name.
+ Thanks to Sergey. #1329
+ * Bind plugin: The type_instance now gets properly sanitized. Thanks to
+ Thomas Kho. #992
+ * CPU plugin: Error messages on MacOSX have been improved. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #22
+ * cURL plugin: A typo in an error message got corrected. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier.
+ * cURL, cURL-JSON and cURL-XML plugins: A memory leak when allocating
+ more memory fails has been fixed. Thanks to Brandon Arp.
+ * DF plugin: An bug preventing filesystems which don't report inodes
+ such as btrfs has been corrected. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1096
+ * DF plugin: Duplicate entries are no longer reported twice. Thanks to
+ Stefan Brüns and Florian Forster. #1402
+ * DF plugin: Legacy code for skipping "rootfs" mount points has been
+ removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1402
+ * DF plugin: Legacy references to the "ReportReserved" option have been
+ removed. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * DF plugin: Reading the mtab now uses a reentrant function when
+ possible. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1163
+ * Ethstat plugin: Code to strip leading whitespace from device names.
+ This works around an issue in the VMXNet3 driver. Thanks to Thomas
+ Guthmann. #1059
+ * Exec plugin: A file descriptor leak when the plugin is configured to
+ run as a non-existing user was corrected. Thanks to Gautam BT and Marc
+ Fournier. #762
+ * Exec plugin: A problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
+ has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
+ * Interface plugin: Documentation about regular expressions in the
+ ignore list has been added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
+ * IRQ plugin: The "FIQ" line is now skipped as it doesn't contain any
+ counter. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #971
+ * Modbus plugin: The debug output has been disabled by default. It is
+ now only enabled when building with "--enable-debug". Thanks to Eric
+ Sandeen and Marc Fournier.
+ * MongoDB plugin: A memory leak has been fixed and some adaptations to
+ the current API of the mongo-c-driver have been made. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #956
+ * Network plugin: A check for the initialization of secure memory has
+ been added. Previously, failure to initialize this memory was ignored.
+ Thanks to @yujokang. #1665
+ * Network plugin: A heap overflow has been fixed in the server code.
+ This issue can be triggered remotely and is potentially exploitable.
+ Thanks to Emilien Gaspar. CVE-2016-6254
+ * Network plugin: The TimeToLive option handling was made more robust.
+ Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #654
+ * NTPd plugin: Documentation about the required "mode 7" has been added.
+ Thanks to Jakub Jankowski.
+ * NTPd plugin: Reporting of "time_offset-loop" was corrected to match
+ the values from ntpq/ntpdc. Thanks to Pierre Fersing and Florian
+ Forster. #1300
+ * OpenVPN plugin: The plugin was fixe to avoid signaling an error when
+ no clients were connected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #731
+ * Perl plugin: Init callbacks have been changed to run essentially
+ single-threaded to avoid race conditions by init functions which
+ create additional threads. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1706
+ * PF plugin and DNS plugin: These plugins have been fixed to build
+ properly on OpenBSD again. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Processes plugin: A compilation error on systems without "regex.h" has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
+ * Processes plugin: A memory leak on Solaris has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Jim Quinn.
+ * Processes plugin and Swap plugin: These plugins have been corrected to
+ also work inside FreeBSD jails. Thanks to biancalana. #1019
+ * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
+ added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
+ * Processes plugin: Process counting on the FreeBSD and OpenBSD
+ platforms has been fixed. Thanks to Herve COMMOWICK. #1298
+ * Processes plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly on Solaris.
+ Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
+ * Python plugin: A double-free bug got fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel.
+ #1285
+ * RRDtool plugin: A race condition leading to corrupt RRD file creation
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1031
+ * SNMP plugin: The "Gauge32" signedness was corrected to match RFC1902.
+ Thanks to Nathan Ward. #1325
+ * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyack #1703
+ * StatsD plugin: A memory leak was corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ #997
+ * StatsD plugin: A symbol lookup error was fixed by properly linking the
+ plugin against libm. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Support for including values above
+ 1000 in percentile calculation has been added. Thanks to Yoga
+ Ramalingam. #401
+ * StatsD plugin: "utils_latency": Two division by zero error conditions
+ have been corrected. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #655
+ * StatsD plugin: Counters absolute counts are now also reported. Thanks
+ to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1311
+ * StatsD plugin: The plugin now emits NaN values when no timer event is
+ recorded. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1038, #1039
+ * StatsD plugin: The plugin was corrected to avoid crashing when
+ negative timer values are submitted. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1131
+ * Tail CSV plugin: The plugin was fixed to work properly with multiple
+ "Collect" options and a bug got fixed when no "TimeFrom" is specified.
+ Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Florian Forster. #1032
+ * TCPConns plugin: A memory leak was fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ #1074
+ * TCPConns plugin: An bug causing collectd to enter an inifinite loop on
+ OpenBSD was fixed. Thanks to Landry Breuil. #1094
+ * Threshold plugin: Threshold configuration blocks can now be defined in
+ different files. Thanks to Michael Salmon. #551
+ * vmem plugin: Support for pgsteal in recent Linux kernels has been
+ added. Thanks to Jakub Jankowski. #1307
+ * vmem plugin: The DSType for nr_dirtied and nr_written was corrected to
+ report a derive. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1072
+ * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling when submitting metrics to the
+ server is now more robust. Thanks to Sam Pointer. #1364
+ * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
+ shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
+ * Write Redis plugin: Multi-Valued key was made easier to parse by
+ adding a "|" character as a delimiter. Thanks to brianpkelly and
+ Florian Forster. #1070
+ * Write Redis plugin: The timestamp format was corrected. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster.
+ * ZFS ARC plugin: The plugin was will not emit warning about missing
+ "l2_size" stats anymore. Thanks to Jan Andres. #919
+ * 152 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
+ fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
+ libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan, clang and gcc-6: Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof, Florian Forster, Marc Fournier, Corey Kosak, Laurent,
+ Claudius Zingerli and Fabien Wernli.
+
+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
+ Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
+ #373, #653, #828
+ * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
+ function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
+ * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier and @NsLib.
+ * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
+ Wilfried Goesgens.
+ * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
+ "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
+ * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
+ failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
+ * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
+ Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
+ * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
+ Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
+ * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
+ targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
+ been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
+ * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier.
+ * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
+ "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
+ Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
+ improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
+ * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
+ * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
+ * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
+ "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
+ Jeremy Katz.
+ * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
+ minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
+ of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #663
+ * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
+ prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
+ * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
+ * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
+ "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
+ * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
+ * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
+ representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
+ Rozada.
+ * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
+ misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
+ * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
+ Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
+ * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
+ improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
+ * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #716
+ * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
+ Yoga Ramalingam.
+ * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
+ double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
+ * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
+ * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard. #610, #804
+ * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
+ to John Leach. #461
+ * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
+ to Florian Forster. #733
+ * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
+ added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
+ * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof.
+ * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
+ * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
+ to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
+ * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier. #821
+ * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
+ numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier.
+ * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
+ John-John Tedro.
+
+2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
+ * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
+ warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
+ * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
+ resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
+ * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
+ Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
+ * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
+ of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
+ of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
+ Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
+ * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
+ Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
+ * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
+ sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
+ * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
+ per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
+ Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
+ * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
+ default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
+ regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
+ behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
+
+2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
+ * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
+ plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
+ encountered, only the first will have any effect.
+ * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
+ plugins for which a configuration is found.
+ * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
+ allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
+ of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
+ * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
+ "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
+ for the patch.
+ * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
+ speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
+ control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
+ * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
+ to Jan Matějka for his patch.
+ * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
+ has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
+ * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
+ * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
+ for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
+ * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
+ been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
+ * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
+ a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
+ patch.
+ * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
+ Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
+ * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
+ added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
+ * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
+ consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
+ architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
+ work.
+ * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
+ "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
+ * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
+ added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
+ * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
+ processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
+ meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
+ * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
+ metrics in the StatsD format.
+ * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
+ Nick Stenning for his patch.
+ * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
+ Javier Maestro for his patch.
+ * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
+ for his patch.
+
+2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
+ * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
+ KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
+ Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
+ #373, #653, #828
+ * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
+ function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
+ * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier and @NsLib.
+ * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c Thanks to
+ Wilfried Goesgens.
+ * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
+ "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
+ * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
+ failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
+ * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
+ Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
+ * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
+ Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
+ * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
+ targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
+ been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
+ * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier.
+ * Documentation: The synopsis of the threshold has been fixed. Thanks
+ to Fabien Wernli.
+ * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
+ "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
+ Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
+ * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
+ * csv: A regression which would lead to the "DataDir" option to be
+ ignored has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada.
+ * curl, curl-json, curl-xml and write_http plugins: Call
+ "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
+ Jeremy Katz.
+ * curl and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
+ minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
+ of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #663
+ * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
+ restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
+ * exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
+ "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
+ * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
+ representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
+ Rozada.
+ * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
+ * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * logfile and syslog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
+ misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
+ * memcached: Connecting to a UNIX socket has been fixed. Thanks to Jim
+ Radford.
+ * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
+ Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
+ * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
+ improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
+ * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #716
+ * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
+ Yoga Ramalingam.
+ * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
+ double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
+ * replace and set targets: Fix error message. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ #448
+ * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: Honor the "DataDir" config option;
+ this fixes a regression. Thanks to Florian Forster. #380
+ * rrdtool and rrdcached plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
+ * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard. #610, #804
+ * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
+ to Florian Forster. #733
+ * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
+ added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
+ * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof.
+ * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
+ to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
+ * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier. #821
+ * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
+ John-John Tedro.
+
+2013-07-13, Version 5.3.1
+ * Documentation: Various fixes.
+ * Configuration: Fix error handling: Errors in included files were
+ ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
+ * dns plugin: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
+ * modbus plugin: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a
+ segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to Stefan Nickl and
+ Fabien Wernli for their patches.
+ * mysql plugin: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave
+ thread has been fixed. Thanks to Joaquín Cuenca Abela for the patch.
+ * snmp plugin: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration).
+ The end-of-tree check has been improved by Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
+ * threshold plugin: Handling of the "Interesting" configuration option
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Björn for the patch.
+ * write_riemann plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Dave
+ Cottlehuber for reporting it.
+
+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.
* 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: 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.
+ * 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.
* 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.
* 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.