+2009-12-18, Version 4.8.2
+ * Build system, java plugin: Don't use “find -L” to search for Java
+ headers, because it's a GNU extension.
+ * Build system: Support for parallel builds has been improved. Thanks
+ Sebastian Harl and Stefan Völkel for looking into this.
+ * collectd: Print error messages to STDERR if no log plugin has been
+ loaded.
+ * genericjmx plugin: Close and re-open the connection upon I/O-errors.
+ * gmond plugin: Fix typos which caused syntax errors.
+ * memory plugin: Handling of >4 Gbyte of memory has been fixed.
+ * network plugin: The license has been changed to LGPL 2.1.
+ * oracle plugin: Reconnect to the database if the connection dies.
+ * rrdcached plugin: Work-around for a bug in RRDtool 1.4rc2 has been
+ added.
+ * snmp plugin: Handling of negative values has been fixed. Strings
+ containing control characters are now interpreted as hex-strings.
+ * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the LISTVAL command has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Ben Knight for his patch.
+
+2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1
+ * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been
+ fixed.
+ * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2).
+ * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build
+ issues on some platforms.
+ * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to
+ Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
+ * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file
+ descriptor handling.
+