+2010-04-07, Version 4.8.4
+ * Build system, various plugins: Fixes for AIX compatibility have been
+ added. Thanks to Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
+ * Build system: Checking for "nanosleep" on old Solaris machines has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Vincent McIntyre and Sebastian Harl for
+ figuring out a way to make this work.
+ * collectd: Serialization of NANs in JSON format has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Chris Buben for pointing out the resulting syntax error.
+ * collectd: Checks whether a "sleep" returned early have been added;
+ the cases are now handled correctly. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg
+ for the patch.
+ * collectd: Continue reading files in a directory when parsing one
+ file fails.
+ * apache plugin: Collection of the number of active connections has
+ been fixed for Apache 2.*.
+ * exec plugin: Error messages have been improved. The "running" flag
+ is now cleared correctly when forking a child fails.
+ * iptables plugin: Fix a violation of aliasing rules. This resolves a
+ warning / error with new GCC versions. Thanks to Jan Engelhardt for
+ the work-around.
+ * java plugin: The Java API files are now packaged into a .jar file.
+ Thanks to Amit Gupta for his patch.
+ * network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
+ packets has been fixed.
+ * oracle plugin: Fix checking for lost connections and reconnect in
+ this case. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for pointing out the problem.
+ * unixsock plugin: A memory leak in the "LISTVAL" command has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Peter Warasin for pointing it out.
+ * write_http plugin: Use the "any" authentication schema. This used to
+ be "digest". Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+
+2010-01-14, Version 4.8.3
+ * Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a bug with random write timeouts. Due to an
+ incorrect initialization some files may be suspended basically
+ indefinitely. After flushing the files they were written regularly
+ again.
+
+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.
+