+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
+ ≧ 0.90 has been added. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #445, #795, #806,
+ #807, #908
+ * Build system, Memory, CPU, TCPConns and Processes plugins: Numerous
+ fixes related to OpenBSD support have been added. Thanks to Landry
+ Breuil. #777, #778, #779, #808
+ * Build system: Plugins now only export "module_register()". Thanks to
+ Florian Forster.
+ * Build system: Various cleanups and improvements have been done. Thanks
+ to Marc Fournier.
+ * collectd: Numerous internal changes and improvements to the daemon and
+ the plugin API have been make. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard and Alex Petrov. #512, #727
+ * collectd: Numerous spelling mistakes have been corrected in comments
+ and documentation and several error messages have been improved.
+ Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Abhinav Upadhyay, Olivier Bazoud, Pierre-Yves
+ 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
+ * collectd: The "CollectInternalStats" option has been added. Thanks to
+ Yves Mettier. #691
+ * collectd: The daemon source code and dependencies have moved to the
+ "src/daemon/" directory. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * collectd: The new "MaxReadInterval" option allows to cap the
+ exponential retry interval of plugins read errors. Thanks to Alexey
+ Remizov and Florian Forster. #713
+ * collectd: The "-P" command-line option now has precedence over the
+ "PIDFile" option. Thanks to Thomas D. #553
+ * collection.cgi: Various data-source related adjustments have been
+ made. Thanks to Fabiano Pires and Sebastian Harl.
+ * libcollectdclient: Now propagates errors when signing / encrypting
+ network packets. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * Configuration: Support for unquoted IPv6 addresses has been added.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #489
+ * Documentation: Various improvements have been done. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster and Marc Fournier.
+ * 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, 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
+ * Threshold: Various fixes and improvements have been made. Thanks to
+ Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #649, #644
+ * AMQP plugin: The "ConnectionRetryDelay" option has been added,
+ allowing to delay reconnection. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam and Marc
+ Fournier. #833
+ * AMQP plugin: The "QueueDurable" and "QueueAutoDelete" options have
+ been added, giving control over queue creation and deletion. Thanks to
+ David Blundell and Marc Fournier. #623
+ * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx and Write HTTP
+ plugins: Customizing the "User-Agent" field is now possible at
+ compile-time. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #440
+ * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx plugins: The
+ 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:
+ 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
+ encryption algorithms to use with TLS connections. Thanks to Toni
+ Moreno. #946
+ * Barometer plugin: This new plugin reads sensor data from various
+ Freescale and Bosch digital barometers. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #69,
+ #693
+ * Battery plugin: Reporting values as percentages and reporting degraded
+ batteries has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * Battery plugin: Support for reading values from sysfs on Linux has
+ been added. Thanks to Andy Parkins, Nicholas Humfrey, Peter Wu and
+ Florian Forster. #725, #810, #998
+ * Battery plugin: The value for current is no longer supplied unless the
+ battery provides this information. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * BIND plugin: Bind's XML v3 API is now supported; Thanks to Victor
+ Berger, Bruno Prémont and Michal Humpula. #742, #847
+ * Ceph plugin: This new plugin collects statistics from the Ceph
+ distributed storage system. Thanks to Dan Ryder, Dennis Zou, Colin
+ McCabe, Sage Weil. #522, #598
+ * ConnTrack plugin: Support for reporting values as percentages as well
+ as legacy conntrack files in "/proc" has been added. Thanks to
+ Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #497, #680
+ * CPU plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages and
+ aggregate values per-state and per-CPU. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard, Florian Forster, Fabien Wernli, Nicholas Humfrey and
+ Wilfried Goesgens. #499, #516, #639 #734, #812, #802
+ * cURL-JSON plugin: Extracting values from complex JSON structures has
+ 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
+ HTTP redirects. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: HTTP Digest authentication has been
+ implemented. Thanks to Frank Cornelis. #482
+ * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: A "MetadataFrom" parameter has been
+ added which allows to set metadata from database columns. Thanks to
+ Mark Wong. #317, #321
+ * DBI plugin: Querying several databases in parallel is now possible.
+ Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #453
+ * Disk plugin: On the Linux platform, disk names can now get looked up
+ in udev with the "UdevNameAttr" option. Thanks to Patrick Mooney. #537
+ * Disk plugin: This plugin now collects several additional I/O-related
+ metrics on the Linux platform. Thanks to Florian Forster and Michael
+ Schenck. #705, #759
+ * DRBD plugin: This new plugin reads Linux's Distributed Replicated
+ Block Device (DRBD) statistics. Thanks to Tim Laszlo. #566, #700
+ * Exec, UnixSock plugins: The "PUTNOTIF" command now allows to set
+ metadata on notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #416
+ * fhcount plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used file
+ handles. Thanks to Jiri Tyr. #1009
+ * GenericJMX plugin: A Class Loader for "JMXConnectorFactory" has been
+ added, allowing the plugin to work with JBOSS > 7. Thanks to Alexandre
+ Moutot. #452
+ * IPC plugin: This new plugin collects information related to shared
+ memory. Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz. #925
+ * Java plugin: Now uses the hostname defined in the configuration file.
+ Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #530, #681
+ * Load plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
+ Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #344, #498
+ * Log Logstash plugin: This new plugin writes collectd logs and events
+ as Logstash JSON formatted events. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
+ #360
+ * LVM plugin: The plugin collects thin pool data volumes size, and no
+ longer reports virtual volumes. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #603
+ * memcached plugin: "listen_disabled_num" are now also reported. Thanks
+ to Matt Cottingham. #622
+ * Memory plugin: Slab memory reporting on the Linux platform has been
+ added. Thanks to Manuel CISSÉ and Marc Fournier. #560, #697
+ * Memory plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
+ Thanks to Jeremy Katz, Florian Forster and Manuel CISSÉ. #501, #511,
+ #559
+ * Modbus plugin: Selecting between holding and input registers is now
+ possible. Thanks to Jan Vitek. #338
+ * Modbus plugin: Support for accessing devices through an RS-485 serial
+ port has been added. Thanks to Eric Sandeen.
+ * Multimeter plugin: This plugin isn't built by default on the AIX
+ platform anymore. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada. #549, #684
+ * MySQL and PostgreSQL plugins: Passing "127.0.0.1" as a host will now
+ result in the global Hostname being used in metric names. Thanks to
+ Jeremy Katz. #441
+ * MySQL plugin: InnoDB, Select and Sort statistics collection has been
+ added. Thanks to Wilson Felipe, Marek Becka and Pierre-Yves Ritschard.
+ #248, #621, #699, #824
+ * MySQL plugin: The "Alias" and "ConnectTimeout" options have been
+ added. Thanks to William Tisäter.
+ * Netlink plugin: Support for 64bit netlink counters has been added.
+ Thanks to Marek Becka. #435
+ * Network plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" configuration option has been
+ added. Thanks to John Ferlito. #732
+ * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4.0 has been implemented. Thanks to Marek
+ Becka. #550
+ * OneWire plugin: Support for more temperature-providing sensor families
+ has been added. Thanks to Tomasz Torcz. #672
+ * OneWire plugin: Support for full OWFS path and more device families
+ has been implemented. Thanks to Tomas Menzl. #68
+ * OpenLDAP plugin: This new plugin reads monitoring information from
+ OpenLDAP's "cn=Monitor" subtree. Thanks to Kimo Rosenbaum, Marc
+ Fournier and Nicholas Humfrey. #719
+ * OpenVPN plugin: Support for OpenVPN 2.3.0 has been implemented. Thanks
+ to Ed Okerson. #252
+ * OpenVZ plugin: Various improvements have been made, making the plugin
+ report values like the other collectd plugins do. Thanks to Chris
+ Lundquist. #264
+ * Perl plugin: A new "listval_filter" method has been added, various
+ internal cleanups and improvements have been made and a test suite has
+ been added. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #728
+ * PostgreSQL plugin: The new "ExpireDelay" option allows skipping older
+ values pending write when the database slows down. Thanks to Stephen
+ O'Dor. #593
+ * PowerDNS plugin: The plugin was updated for stats from pdns 3.4.3.
+ Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #965
+ * Processes plugin: A memory-usage related optimization for low-profile
+ systems has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #652
+ * Python plugin: Support for Python3 has been improved, "ModulePath" is
+ now prepended to "sys.path", and the "get_dataset()" function has been
+ added to the Python API. Thanks to Sven Trenkel and Patrick Browne.
+ #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, 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
+ added. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #532
+ * Sensors plugin: Support for lm_sensors' power sensors has been added.
+ Thanks to Jan Kundrát. #571
+ * SMART plugin: This new plugin collects SMART statistics from disk
+ drives. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #797
+ * SNMP plugin: A blacklist/whitelist feature can now be used to filter
+ which OIDs to collect. Thanks to Christophe Courtaut. #414
+ * SNMP plugin: SNMPv3 authentication and encryption support has been
+ implemented. Thanks to Michael Pilat. #362
+ * SNMP plugin: Two error messages have been disambiguated. Thanks to
+ Sergey. #939, #952
+ * Swap plugin: The plugin is now able to report values as percentages.
+ Thanks to Jeremy Katz and Florian Forster. #500, #510
+ * Swap plugin: The plugin no longer fails on Linux systems where
+ "SwapCached" isn't exposed by the kernel. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ #733
+ * Tail plugin: "GaugeInc" and "GaugeAdd" options have been implemented.
+ Thanks to Andre Ferraz. #673
+ * Tail plugin: Intervals can now be configured on a per-File basis.
+ Thanks to Tom Leaman. #446
+ * TCPConns plugin: The "AllPortsSummary" option, allowing to summarize
+ all connections, has been added. Thanks to Marek Becka. #488
+ * TCPConns plugin: Three metrics were renamed on the AIX platform, for
+ the sake of consistency. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #546
+ * Turbostat plugin: This new plugin reads CPU frequency and C-state
+ residency on modern Intel turbo-capable processors. Thanks to Vincent
+ Brillault, Jean Delvare and Nicolas Iooss. #651
+ * UnixSock plugin: The "GETTHRESHOLD" command has been re-added. Thanks
+ to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #674
+ * 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
+ Tiago Carvalho, jazzmes and Zollner Robert.
+ * 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
+ Florian Forster.
+ * Write Graphite plugin: When the connection to graphite fails,
+ reconnection attempts are now limited to once per second. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #625
+ * Write HTTP plugin: Multi-instance support of this plugin has been
+ improved. The "<URL "url">" block has been deprecated in favor of
+ "<Node "identifier">". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #902
+ * Write HTTP plugin: Several TLS-related configuration options have been
+ added. Thanks to Ingmar Runge. #666
+ * Write HTTP plugin: The "LowSpeedLimit" and "Timeout" options allow to
+ reset slow/stalled network connections. Thanks to loginator17 and Marc
+ Fournier. #752, #985
+ * Write HTTP plugin: The size of the payload posted to the HTTP server
+ can now be controlled with the "BufferSize" option. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #722
+ * Write Kafka plugin: This new plugin sends data to Apache Kafka, a
+ distributed messaging queue. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard,
+ ciomaire, Vincent Bernat, Marc Fournier. #670, #694, #794, #853, #014
+ * Write Log plugin: This new plugin dispatches collected values to the
+ configured log destination(s). Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #886
+ * Write Riemann plugin: Extra meta strings are now added as attributes
+ in notifications. Thanks to John-John Tedro. #417
+ * Write Riemann plugin: Notification message are now sent to the Riemann
+ server via the description field. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #575
+ * Write Riemann plugin: Support for custom attributes has been added.
+ Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #459
+ * Write Riemann plugin: Support had been implemented for sending events
+ to Riemann in batches (when using TCP), and is enabled by default.
+ Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #800
+ * Write Riemann plugin: The "EventServicePrefix" option has been added,
+ which adds a prefix to event service names. Thanks to Moshe Zada. #706
+ * Write Riemann plugin: Threshold checks can now be passed down to the
+ Riemann server. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #518
+ * Write Sensu plugin: This new plugin submits values to Sensu, a stream
+ processing and monitoring system. Thanks to Fabrice A. Marie and Marc
+ Fournier. #912, #1001, #1016
+ * Write TSDB plugin: This new plugin sends data to OpenTSDB, a scalable
+ time series database. Thanks to Kevin Bowling, Florian Forster, Dallin
+ Young, Michael Schenck and Pierre-Yves Ritschard. #703, #772, #945
+ * ZFS ARC plugin: Support for ZFS-on-Linux has been added. Thanks to
+ Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens. #552
+ * Zookeeper plugin: This new plugin reads data from the Apache Zookeeper
+ "MNTR" command. Thanks to Jeremy Katz. #826
+
+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
+ Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
+ #373, #653, #828
+ * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
+ function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
+ * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier and @NsLib.
+ * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
+ Wilfried Goesgens.
+ * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
+ "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
+ * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
+ failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
+ * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
+ Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
+ * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
+ Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
+ * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
+ targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
+ been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
+ * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier.
+ * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
+ "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
+ Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
+ improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
+ * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
+ * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
+ * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
+ "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
+ Jeremy Katz.
+ * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
+ minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
+ of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #663
+ * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
+ prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
+ * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
+ * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
+ "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
+ * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
+ * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
+ representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
+ Rozada.
+ * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
+ misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
+ * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
+ Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
+ * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
+ improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
+ * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #716
+ * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
+ Yoga Ramalingam.
+ * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
+ double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
+ * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
+ * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard. #610, #804
+ * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
+ to John Leach. #461
+ * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
+ to Florian Forster. #733
+ * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
+ added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
+ * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof.
+ * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
+ * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
+ to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
+ * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier. #821
+ * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
+ numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
+ Fournier.
+ * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
+ John-John Tedro.
+
+2014-01-26, Version 5.4.1
+ * amqp plugin: Add support for RabbitMQ 0.4.x to avoid compiler
+ warnings. Thanks to Sebastian Harl for implementing this.
+ * apache / network plugins: Improved initialization order hopefully
+ resolved gcrypt initialization problems.
+ * aquaero plugin: The type used to submit fan utilization was fixed.
+ Thanks to Alex Deymo for the patch.
+ * cgroups plugin: A small memory leak was fixed. Checking the existence
+ of a mount option without a value was fixed. More permissive parsing
+ of the cpuacct.stats file fixes support for some versions of Linux.
+ Thanks to Marc Fournier for bug reports and patches.
+ * curl plugin: Fix <Match> blocks without an instance. Thanks to
+ Alexander Golovko for reporting and Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
+ * curl_json plugin: Potentially invalid memory access has been
+ sanitized. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
+ * interface plugin: Fix behavior under FreeBSD 10: Reporting of
+ per-address statistics caused duplicate updates to the same metric.
+ Thanks to demon / @trtrmitya for the patch.
+ * write_graphite plugin: Use TCP to connect to Graphite by default. The
+ default changed from TCP to UDP between 5.3.1 and 5.4.0, which is a
+ regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier for fixing this. Reconnect
+ behavior was improved. Thanks to Michael Hart for his patch.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: Collect "allocated" and "stolen" on FreeBSD only.
+
+2013-08-18, Version 5.4.0
+ * collectd: The "LoadPlugin" config option no longer attempts to load
+ plugins twice. If more than one "LoadPlugin" statement or block is
+ encountered, only the first will have any effect.
+ * collectd: The "AutoLoadPlugin" option allows to automatically load
+ plugins for which a configuration is found.
+ * collectd: The "WriteQueueLimitHigh" and "WriteQueueLimitLow" options
+ allow collectd to drop values when under stress, to avoid running out
+ of memory. Thanks to Yves Mettier for his patch.
+ * amqp plugin: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
+ "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options have been added. Thanks to Laurent
+ for the patch.
+ * aquaero plugin: This new plugin reads various metrics, e.g. fan
+ speeds and temperatures, from Aquaero 5, a fan and water cooling
+ control panel. Thanks to Alex Deymo for his patch.
+ * curl plugin: The "MeasureResponseCode" option has been added. Thanks
+ to Jan Matějka for his patch.
+ * curl_json plugin: Support for UNIX domain sockets and array wildcards
+ has been added. Thanks to Jim Radford for his patch.
+ * curl_xml plugin: Support for long URLs has been improved.
+ * cgroups plugin: This new plugin collects CPU accounting information
+ for processes in a cgroup. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for his patch.
+ * df plugin: The "ValuesAbsolute" and "ValuesPercentage" options have
+ been added. Thanks to Vedran Bartonicek for the patch.
+ * exec plugin: Do UID / GID lookups before forking. This should prevent
+ a race condition in the NSS library. Thanks to Ceri Storey for the
+ patch.
+ * lvm plugin: This new plugin collects size information from Linux'
+ Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Thanks to Chad Malfait for his work.
+ * memcached plugin: Support for increment and decrement counts has been
+ added. Thanks to Blake Matheny for the patch.
+ * mic plugin: This new plugin collects CPU and memory usage, power
+ consumption and temperatures of Intel's Many-Integrated-Core (MIC)
+ architecture, such as Xeon Phi cards. Thanks to Evan Felix for his
+ work.
+ * netlink plugin: This plugin has been converted to use the supported
+ "libmnl" library. Thanks to Andreas Henriksson for his patch.
+ * nginx plugin: Collection of accepted and handled connections has been
+ added. Thanks to Patrick Shan for his patch.
+ * sigrok plugin: This new plugin collects metrics from sigrok, a signal
+ processing framework reading various hardware devices, from light
+ meters to spectrum analyzers. Thanks to Bert Vermeulen for his patch.
+ * statsd plugin: This new plugin listens to a UDP socket and reads
+ metrics in the StatsD format.
+ * varnish plugin: Many additional metrics have been added. Thanks to
+ Nick Stenning for his patch.
+ * write_graphite plugin: Support for "UDP" has been added. Thanks to
+ Javier Maestro for his patch.
+ * write_riemann plugin: The "TTLFactor" option has been added.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li
+ for his patch.
+
2015-02-26, Version 5.3.2
* Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
Florian Forster. #663
+ * dbi plugin: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been
+ restored. Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
* exec, unixsock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
"PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
* java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
2008-07-15, Version 4.4.2
* build system: Use pkg-config to detect the upsclient library.
- * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianess of the
+ * collectd: Try even harder to determine the endianness of the
architecture collectd is being built on.
* disk plugin: Fix for Linux 2.4: A wrong field was used as the name
of disks.
2008-08-30, Version 4.3.4
* Build system: Improved detection of and linking with the statgrab
library.
- * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianess more
+ * collectd: Portability fixes, especially to determine endianness more
reliable.
* Various plugins: Fix format strings.
* disk plugin: A fix for giving disks under Linux 2.4 the right names
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