+2016-07-25, Version 5.5.2
+ * collectd: A division by zero has been fixed in the
+ "plugin_dispatch_multivalue()" function. Thanks to Corey Kosak.
+ * collectd: The address of the Free Software Foundation has been fixed
+ in GPL license headers. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Build system: Detection and handling of librrd 1.6 and later has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkof.
+ * Apache plugin: A warning about a possible misconfiguration has been
+ added. 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: A build issue on DragonFlyBSD has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Ruben Kerkhof. #1575
+ * 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 problem in the error handling of an fdopen() failure
+ has been fixed. Thanks to @ciomaire.
+ * 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.
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ * Processes plugin: A warning about too long process names has been
+ added. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1284
+ * Redis plugin: A memory leak in an error handling code path has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz.
+ * Redis plugin: The data source type of the expired_keys metric has been
+ corrected to "DERIVE". Thanks to Marc Falzon and Marc Fournier. #1483.
+ * SMART plugin: A build dependency on libudev has been added. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyack. #1724
+ * StatsD plugin: A deadlock on plugin shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyack #1703
+ * Write HTTP plugin: Freeing of memory holding HTTP headers during
+ shutdown has been fixed. Thanks to Tolga Ceylan.
+ * Write Sensu plugin: A segfault when the Tag was unset has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * ZFS ARC plugin: The cache_operation-stolen metric has been removed for
+ FreeBSD 10.2 and later. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1580
+
+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
* Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
"MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
+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
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