-2015-05-20, Version 5.5.0
+2016-01-22, Version 5.5.1
+ * Build system: Compilation errors have been avoided by correctly
+ defining package name and version used by autoconf. Thanks to Nathan
+ Berkley. #1063
+ * Build system: Dependency ordering was fixed to ensure parallel builds
+ work reliably. Thanks to Gustavo Zacarias. #1125
+ * Build system: Error messages have been improved and building the unit
+ tests has been fixed on Solaris. Thanks to Florian Forster and
+ Dagobert Michelsen. #1077
+ * Build system: The move of the "utils_ignorelist" functions has been
+ reverted. This fixes build issues of numerous plugins. Thanks to
+ Benjamin Drung;. #1323
+ * Build system: The fhcount plugin has been restricted to Linux. Thanks
+ to Ruben Kerkhof. #1195
+ * Build system: Detection of header files for the turbostat plugin has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1075
+ * collectd: The "LC_NUMERIC" locale is now forced, to prevent issues
+ with some plugins on environments using a comma as decimal separator.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster. #1237
+ * Documentation: Some precisions related to the virt plugin have beed
+ added. Thanks to Wojtek Bocer and Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Documentation: The CollectdInternalStats documentation has been
+ improved. Thanks to Yves Mettier and Florian Forster.
+ * Battery plugin: A missing Type has been added. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier. #1338
+ * Bind plugin: An off-by-one error has been fixed: an index was checked
+ against a wrong variable, which may lead to an out-of-bounds read.
+ Thanks to Michal Humpula. #1123
+ * Ceph plugin: JSON parsing has been refactored to support ceph 10.0.0
+ and fixes several buffer overflows. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1350
+ * CPU plugin: A Mac OS X specific bug has been fixed: the plugin
+ expected an incorrect number of CPU states, resulting in failing read
+ callbacks. This regression was introduced in 5.5.0. Thanks to Robert
+ Viduya.
+ * Disk plugin: Support for Mac OS X 10.10 has been added. Thanks to
+ Robert Viduya. #1065
+ * IPC plugin: Support for building with musl-libc has been added. Thanks
+ to Natanael Copa. #1147
+ * Log Logstash plugin: A segfault when using libyajl, version 1 was
+ fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #1190
+ * Log Logstash plugin: The timestamp is now ISO 8601 compliant. Thanks
+ to Marc Fournier. #1132
+ * memcached plugin: The Type of the listen-disabled metric was fixed.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster. #1356
+ * MySQL plugin: The Type used by Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed was
+ fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka. #1085
+ * OpenLDAP plugin: A crash when using LDAPI (LDAP-over-IPC) got fixed.
+ Thanks to Marek Becka. #1080
+ * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for Mac OS X has been added. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof. #1489
+ * SMART plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
+ Schüller and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #1076
+ * Swap plugin: A regression that would lead to swap usage being reported
+ in kilobytes (instead of bytes) has been fixed. Thanks to Marek Becka.
+ #1071
+ * Varnish plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof. #1182
+ * Varnish plugin: Support for versions 3 and 4 has been made more
+ tolerant to minor changes in Varnish point releases. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier. #1302
+ * virt plugin: A copy-and-paste mistake in an error message has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1101
+ * Write Kafka plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
+ Shahul Hameed. #1171
+ * Write Redis plugin: Dead code has been removed. Thanks to Brian Kelly.
+ #1143
+ * 27 patches have been applied to numerous plugins and core components,
+ fixing various programming errors which were reported by scan-build,
+ libasan, FBInfer, coverity-scan and clang: Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
+ Florian Forster and Marek Becka.
+ * Collectd::Unixsock: A Perl error got corrected. Thanks to Ciaran Mac
+ An Iomaire. #1295
+
+2015-05-27, Version 5.5.0
* Build system: Ability to make out-of-tree builds has been fixed.
Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #792
* Build system, Disk and Users plugins: Detection and use of libstatgrab
Ritschard, Tim Smith, Moshe Zada, Katelyn Perry and Marc Fournier.
* collectd: Rules/Targets can now be appended to existing Filter Chains.
Thanks to Marc Falzon. #444
+ * collectd: Failing Filter Chains destinations will now log the list of
+ available write targets. Thanks to Wilfried Goesgens. #650, #1043
* collectd: Support for process signaling and management by upstart and
systemd has been implemented for the Linux platform. Thanks to
Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier. #798, #811, #814
* Examples: the sample C plugin has been updated to the current plugin
API. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
* Licensing: The following components have been relicensed to the MIT
- license: the Apple_Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
- gmond, Java, LogFile, nginx, Notify_Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl,
- Ping, PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD,
- SysLog, Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write_Riemann
- and XMMS plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon,
- collectd-nagios and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and
- Matches, liboconfig, most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
+ license: the Apple Sensors, Ascent, DBI, E-Mail, Entropy, GenericJMX,
+ gmond, LogFile, nginx, Notify Desktop, NTPd, NUT, olsrd, Perl, Ping,
+ PostgreSQL, Protocols, RouterOS, RRDCacheD, SNMP, StatsD, SysLog,
+ Table, Tail, UnixSock, vmem, VServer, Wireless, Write Riemann and XMMS
+ plugins, the core collectd daemon, the collectdmon, collectd-nagios
+ and collectd-tg utilities, all the Targets and Matches, liboconfig,
+ most of the "utils_*" files and the plugin API.
* Tests: A test suite has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
* Threshold: The hysteresis calculation has been made more reliable.
Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #581
connection will be reset if it hasn't completed within the configured
"Interval". The new "Timeout" option gives control over this behavior.
Thanks to Jan Kundrát and Marc Fournier. #982, #983, #993
- * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write_HTTP plugins:
+ * Apache, Ascent, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP plugins:
Allow usernames and passwords to contain colons if built against
libcurl ≧ 7.19.1. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #695, #947
* Apache plugin: The "SSLCiphers" option gives control over the
been enhanced. Thanks to Jim Radford. #408, #411
* cURL-JSON plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-URL basis.
Thanks to Stan Sawa. #685
- * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write_HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
+ * cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, Write HTTP plugins: These plugins now also follow
HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
* cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
#890, #751, #771
* Redis and Write_Redis plugins: The support library has been switched
from credis to hiredis. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz, Victor Seva, Marc
- Fournier, Johan Bergström and Michael Spiegle. #296, #464, #475, #799
+ Fournier, Johan Bergström, Michael Spiegle and brianpkelly. #296,
+ #464, #475, #799, #1030
* Redis plugin: Custom commands can now be used to fetch values stored
in Redis. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #816
* Redis plugin: Support for passwords up to 512 characters long has been
* Varnish plugin: Varnish 4 support has been added, as well as as
monitoring metrics only available in Varnish 4. Thanks to Marc
Fournier. #618, #783
- * Virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
+ * virt plugin: Guests memory usage is now also collected. Thanks to
Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
- * Virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
+ * virt plugin: It is now possible to chose between using guests' name or
UUID as plugin_instance. Thanks to Remi Ferrand. #385
- * Virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
+ * virt plugin: The libvirt plugin has been renamed to virt. Thanks to
Florian Forster.
* Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to