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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
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