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+2010-07-09, Version 4.10.1
+	* Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
+	* Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
+	  Alexander Wuerstlein for his patch.
+	* collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
+	  been improved.
+	* libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
+	  removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
+	* df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
+	  been added.
+	* processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
+	  struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
+	* python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
+	  have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
+	  configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
+	* snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
+	  increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
+	  fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
+	* powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
+	  have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
+
+2010-05-01, Version 4.10.0
+	* collectd: JSON output now includes the "dstypes" and "dsnames"
+	  fields. This makes it easier for external applications to interpret
+	  the data. Thanks to Chris Buben for his work.
+	* collectd: The new "Timeout" option can be used to specify a
+	  "timeout" for missing values. This is used in the threshold checking
+	  code to detect missing values. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the
+	  patch.
+	* apache plugin: Support for "IdleWorkers" (Apache 1.*: "IdleServers")
+	  has been added.
+	* curl plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
+	  lines from the match.
+	* curl_xml plugin: This new plugin allows to read XML files using cURL
+	  and extract metrics included in the files. Thanks to Amit Gupta for
+	  his work.
+	* filecount plugin: The new "IncludeHidden" option allows to include
+	  "hidden" files and directories in the statistics. Thanks to Vaclav
+	  Malek for the patch.
+	* logfile plugin: The new "PrintSeverity" option allows to include the
+	  severity of a message in the output. Thanks to Clément Stenac for
+	  his patch.
+	* memcachec plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude
+	  certain lines from the match.
+	* modbus plugin: This new plugin allows to read registers from
+	  Modbus-TCP enabled devices.
+	* network plugin: The new "Interface" option allows to set the
+	  interface to be used for multicast and, if supported, unicast
+	  traffic. Thanks to Max Henkel for his work.
+	* openvpn plugin: The "CollectUserCount" and "CollectIndividualUsers"
+	  options allow more detailed control over how to report sessions of
+	  multiple users. Thanks to Fabian Schuh for his work.
+	* pinba plugin: This new plugin receives timing information from the
+	  Pinba PHP extension, which can be used for profiling PHP code and
+	  webserver performance. Thanks to Phoenix Kayo for his work.
+	* ping plugin: The new "MaxMissed" allows to re-resolve a hosts
+	  address when it doesn't reply to a number of ping requests. Thanks
+	  to Stefan Völkel for the patch.
+	* postgresql plugin: The "Interval" config option has been added. The
+	  plugin has been relicensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Thanks to
+	  Sebastian Harl for his work.
+	* processes plugin: Support for "code" and "data" virtual memory sizes
+	  has been added. Thanks to Clément Stenac for his patch.
+	* python plugin: Support for Python 3 has been implemented. Thanks to
+	  Sven Trenkel for his work.
+	* routeros plugin: Support for collecting CPU load, memory usage, used
+	  and free disk space, sectors written and number of bad blocks from
+	  MikroTik devices has been added.
+	* swap plugin: Support for Linux < 2.6 has been added. Thanks to Lorin
+	  Scraba for his patch.
+	* tail plugin: The new "ExcludeRegex" allows to easily exclude certain
+	  lines from the match. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his patch.
+	* write_http plugin: The "StoreRates" option has been added. Thanks to
+	  Paul Sadauskas for his patch.
+	* regex match: The "Invert" option has been added. Thanks to Julien
+	  Ammous for his patch.
+
+2010-07-09, Version 4.9.3
+	* Build system: Checking for "strtok_r" under Solaris has been fixed.
+	* Portability: Fixes for Solaris 8 have been applied. Thanks to
+	  Aurélien Reynaud and Alexander Wuerstlein for their patches.
+	* collectd: The shutdown speed when terminating the read threads has
+	  been improved.
+	* collectd-nagios: The format of the performance data has been fixed.
+	* libcollectdclient: A format error in the PUTVAL command has been
+	  removed. Thanks to Johan Van den Brande for fixing this.
+	* df plugin: An error message shown when "cu_mount_getlist" fails has
+	  been added.
+	* processes plugin: Missing initialization code for IO members of a
+	  struct has been added. Thanks to Aurélien Reynaud for fixing this.
+	* python plugin: Memory leaks in the write and notification callbacks
+	  have been fixed. A possible crash when the plugin was loaded but not
+	  configured has been fixed. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his patches.
+	* rrdcached plugin: A build issue has been resolved. Thanks to
+	  Thorsten von Eicken for the patch.
+	* snmp plugin: Verbosity with regard to unknown ASN types has been
+	  increased. A build problem on PowerPC and ARM processors has been
+	  fixed by Aurélien Reynaud; thanks!
+	* powerdns plugin: Compatibility changes for PowerDNS 2.9.22 and above
+	  have been applied. Thanks to Luke Heberling for his changes.
+
+2010-04-22, Version 4.9.2
+	* 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: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
+	* 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.*.
+	* contextswitch plugin: Handle large counter/derive values correctly.
+	  Thanks to Martin Merkel for reporting the bug.
+	* 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: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
+	  an unknown data source type.
+	* network plugin: A memory leak when receiving encrypted network
+	  packets has been fixed.
+	* openvpn plugin: Fix naming schema when reading "MULTI1" type status
+	  files.
+	* 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 4.9.1
+	* Documentation: Some manpage fixes.
+	* Default config: Added sample configuration for missing plugins.
+	* apache plugin: Fix a segmentation fault in the config handling of
+	  VerifyPeer / VerifyHost. Thanks to "plazmus" for his or her patch.
+	* processes plugin: Fix handling of derive data sources.
+	* 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.
+	* routeros plugin: Use the node name for the "host" field.
+	* Monitorus.pm: Put the plugin into the "Collectd::Plugins" namespace.
+	* Perl bindings: Fix a warning that was printed when building
+	  debugging output.
+
+2009-12-21, Version 4.9.0
+	* contextswitch plugin: The new ContextSwitch plugin gathers the
+	  number of context switches done by the CPU. Thanks to Patrik
+	  Weiskircher for the patch.
+	* cpu plugin: Support for SMP (multiple processors) under FreeBSD has
+	  been added. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+	* curl plugin: The “MeasureResponseTime” option has been added. Thanks
+	  to Aman Gupta for the patch.
+	* df plugin: Collecting the inode count and reserved space has been
+	  added. Thanks to Patrik Weiskircher for the patch.
+	* exec plugin: The environment variables “COLLECTD_INTERVAL” and
+	  “COLLECTD_HOSTNAME” are now set before executing the application.
+	* Monitorus plugin: This Perl-based plugin to query statistics from
+	  mon.itor.us has been added. Thanks to Jeff Green for the patch.
+	* netapp plugin: New plugin to collect statistics from NetApp filers.
+	  Thanks to Sven Trenkel of the noris network AG for the patch.
+	* network plugin: Statistics collection about the plugin itself has
+	  been implemented.
+	* openvpn plugin: Add support for more versions of the “status file”.
+	  Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
+	* OpenVZ plugin: This Perl-based plugin to gather OpenVZ statistics
+	  has been added. Thanks to Jonathan Kolb for the patch.
+	* ping plugin: The config options "SourceAddress" and "Device"
+	  have been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
+	* processes plugin: Collection of IO-metrics has been added. Thanks to
+	  Andrés J. Díaz for the patch.
+	* python plugin: The new Python plugin integrates a Python interpreter
+	  into collectd and allows to execute plugins written in the scripting
+	  language. Thanks to Sven Trenkel for his work.
+	* routeros plugin: The new RouterOS plugin queries interface and
+	  wireless registration statistics from RouterOS.
+	* Various plugins: AIX support has been added to the cpu, disk,
+	  interface, load, memory, processes, and swap plugins. Thanks to
+	  Manuel Sanmartin for his patches.
+	* hashed match: This match for simple load balancing and redundant
+	  storage has been added.
+	* scale target: This target to scale (multiply) values by an arbitrary
+	  value has been added.
+
+2010-04-22, Version 4.8.5
+	* collectd: Append a newline to messages written to STDERR.
+	* network plugin: Fix a segmentation fault when receiving packets with
+	  an unknown data source type.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+2009-09-13, Version 4.8.0
+	* collectd: Two new data source types, “DERIVE” and “ABSOLUTE”, have
+	  been added. “DERIVE” can be used for counters that are reset
+	  occasionally. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for implementing this.
+	* thresholds: The advanced threshold options “Percentage”, “Hits”, and
+	  “Hysteresis” have been added. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for his
+	  patches.
+	* curl_json plugin: The new cURL-JSON plugin reads JSON files using
+	  the cURL library and parses the contents according to user
+	  specification. Among other things, this allows to read statistics
+	  from a CouchDB instance. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+	* df plugin: Using the new “ReportByDevice” option the device rather
+	  than the mount point can be used to identify partitions. Thanks to
+	  Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+	* dns plugin: The possibility to ignore numeric QTypes has been added.
+	  Thanks to Mirko Buffoni for the patch.
+	* GenericJMX plugin: The new, Java-based GenericJMX plugin allows to
+	  query arbitrary data from a Java process using the “Java Management
+	  Extensions” (JMX).
+	* madwifi plugin: The new MadWifi plugin collects information about
+	  Atheros wireless LAN chipsets from the MadWifi driver. Thanks to
+	  Ondrej Zajicek for his patches.
+	* network plugin: The receive- and send-buffer-sizes have been made
+	  configurable, allowing for bigger and smaller packets. Thanks to
+	  Aman Gupta for the patch.
+	* olsrd plugin: The new OLSRd plugin queries routing information from
+	  the “Optimized Link State Routing” daemon.
+	* rrdtool plugin: A new configuration option allows to define a random
+	  write delay when writing RRD files. This spreads the load created by
+	  writing RRD files more evenly. Thanks to Mariusz Gronczewski for the
+	  patch.
+	* swap plugin: The possibility to collect swapped in/out pages has
+	  been added to the Swap plugin. Thanks to Stefan Völkel for the
+	  patch.
+	* tokyotyrant plugin: The new TokyoTyrant plugin reads the number of
+	  records and file size from a running Tokyo Tyrant server. Thanks to
+	  Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+	* unixsock plugin: Add the “GETTHRESHOLD” command. This command can be
+	  used to query the thresholds configured for a particular identifier.
+	* write_http plugin: The new Write HTTP plugin sends the values
+	  collected by collectd to a web-server using HTTP POST requests.
+	  Thanks to Paul Sadauskas for the patch.
+	* zfs_arc plugin: The new ZFS ARC plugin collects information about
+	  the “Adaptive Replacement Cache” (ARC) of the “Zeta File-System”
+	  (ZFS). Thanks to Anthony Dewhurst for the patch.
+	* empty_counter match: The new Empty Counter match matches value
+	  lists, where at least one data source is of type COUNTER and the
+	  counter value of all counter data sources is zero.
+
+2009-12-18, Version 4.7.5
+	* 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.
+	* 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.
+
+2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4
+	* 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.
+
+2009-09-13, Version 4.7.3
+	* collectd: Fix a possible but very rare invalid “free” in the caching
+	  code. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch.
+	* collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
+	  This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
+	  old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
+	  Díaz for the patch.
+	* collectd: The “plugin_unregister_read” function has been fixed.
+	* apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
+	  to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
+	* df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
+	  possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
+	  Hess for reporting this bug.
+	* iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
+	  Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
+	  updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
+	  is linked with the shipped library, too.
+	* java plugin: Delay creating the JVM until after the daemon has
+	  forked. The JVM internally creates threads that are lost when
+	  forking. This means that Java-based plugins are now configured
+	  during the init-phase, i. e. later than other plugins.
+	* libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
+	  to Alan Pevec for the patch.
+	* network plugin: Fix the handling of the “CacheFlush” option: The
+	  value was assigned to a wrong variable. The initialization of the
+	  gcrypt library, which is used for signing / encrypting traffic, has
+	  been fixed. Thanks to Luke Heberling for the patch.
+	* powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
+	  socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed.  An
+	  incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
+	  for his patches.
+
+2009-07-19, Version 4.7.2
+	* Build system: Support for `DESTDIR' has been fixed in the Java
+	  bindings.
+	* collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
+	  Díaz for fixing this bug.
+	* collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
+	  code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
+	* memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
+	  for reporting the bug.
+	* ping plugin: Link the plugin with libm.
+
+2009-06-02, Version 4.7.1
+	* Build system: Detection of Java has been improved and missing
+	  details have been added to the configuration summary. Support for
+	  libtool 2.2 has been added.
+	* collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
+	  first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
+	  caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
+	  J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
+	* collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
+	  fixed.
+	* rrdtool plugin: Make sure initialization is run only once. This
+	  resolves problems under Solaris and potentially other systems.
+	  Thanks to Amit Gupta for reporting this bug.
+	* java plugin: Make it possible to use dots ('.') instead of slashes
+	  ('/') as the class separator. Thanks to Randy Rizun for pointing
+	  this out.
+	* swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
+	  to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+
 2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
 	* apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
 	  Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
@@ -42,26 +447,58 @@
 	* uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
 	  uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
 
-2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
+2009-09-10, Version 4.6.5
+	* collectd: Remove old values when a cache entry is marked as missing.
+	  This way the “GETVAL” command of the UnixSock plugin doesn't return
+	  old, no longer valid values when this happens. Thanks to Andrés J.
+	  Díaz for the patch.
+	* apache, ascent, bind, curl, nginx plugins: Advise the cURL library
+	  to follow redirects. Thanks to Joey Hess for reporting this bug.
+	* df plugin: Check the ignorelist before stating the file system,
+	  possibly reducing the number of stats considerably. Thanks to Joey
+	  Hess for reporting this bug.
+	* iptables plugin: Support for the new libiptc API has been added.
+	  Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patch. The build system has been
+	  updated to the plugin only includes the shipped header files when it
+	  is linked with the shipped library, too.
+	* libvirt plugin: Re-connect to libvirtd if connecting fails. Thanks
+	  to Alan Pevec for the patch.
+	* powerdns plugin: Set a timeout when reading data from the datagram
+	  socket. Handling of the “LocalSocket” option has been fixed.  An
+	  incorrectly used “type” has been corrected. Thanks to Luke Heberling
+	  for his patches.
+
+2009-07-18, Version 4.6.4
+	* collectd: Okay-notifications have been fixed. Thanks to Andrés J.
+	  Díaz for fixing this bug.
+	* collectd: A programming error has been fixed in the notification
+	  code. The bug may result in an assertion failure.
+	* memcached plugin: Portability fix for Solaris. Thanks to Amit Gupta
+	  for reporting the bug.
+
+2009-06-02, Version 4.6.3
 	* Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
 	  OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
 	  for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
 	  Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
 	  providing an OpenBSD system.
-	* collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
+	* collectd: Two bugs with the threshold checking have been fixed. The
+	  first one prevented thresholds to be checked at all, the second one
+	  caused wrong behavior with the persistency option. Thanks to Andrés
+	  J. Díaz for fixing these problems.
+	* collectd: Handling of the `Include' configuration option has been
+	  fixed.
 	* battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
 	  interval.
-	* dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
 	* exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
 	  Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
 	* irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
 	  Tomasz Pala for the patch.
 	* perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
 	  the patch.
-	* rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
-	  is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
-	  initialized, the daemon may crash.
 	* memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
+	* swap plugin: A work-around for 32-bit Solaris has been added. Thanks
+	  to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
 
 2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
 	* collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
@@ -162,6 +599,27 @@
 	* swap plugin: Code for OpenBSD (and possibly other *BSDs) has been
 	  added.
 
+2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
+	* Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
+	  OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
+	  for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
+	  Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
+	  providing an OpenBSD system.
+	* collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
+	* battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
+	  interval.
+	* dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
+	* exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
+	  Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
+	* irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
+	  Tomasz Pala for the patch.
+	* perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
+	  the patch.
+	* rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
+	  is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
+	  initialized, the daemon may crash.
+	* memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
+
 2009-02-22, Version 4.5.3
 	* build system: The check for libupsclient even when `pkg-config' is
 	  not available.
@@ -1090,15 +1548,15 @@
 2005-07-08, Version 1.3: CPU stats
 	* Collecting CPU statistics now
 
-2004-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
+2005-07-12, Version 1.2: Using syslog
 	* collectd is now using the syslog facility to report errors, warnings
 	  and the like..
 	* The default directory is now /var/db/collectd
 
-2004-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
+2005-07-10, Version 1.1: Minor changes
 	* Nothing really useful to say ;)
 
-2004-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
+2005-07-09, Version 1.0: Initial Version
 	* The following modules are provided:
 	  * Load average
 	  * Ping time