Merge branch 'collectd-4.10' into collectd-5.0

[collectd.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 2ed8934..ac79ce5 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -363,6 +363,9 @@ Features
       requests. The transmitted data is either in a form understood by the
       Exec plugin or formatted in JSON.
 
+    - write_redis
+      Sends the values to a Redis key-value database server.
+
   * Logging is, as everything in collectd, provided by plugins. The following
     plugins keep up informed about what's going on:
 
@@ -442,6 +445,10 @@ Features
 
   * Miscellaneous plugins:
 
+    - threshold
+      Checks values against configured thresholds and creates notifications if
+      values are out of bounds. See collectd-threshold(5) for details.
+
     - uuid
       Sets the hostname to an unique identifier. This is meant for setups
       where each client may migrate to another physical host, possibly going
@@ -569,8 +576,10 @@ Prerequisites
     <http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>
 
   * libmodbus (optional)
-    Used by the `modbus' plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices.
-    <https://launchpad.net/libmodbus>
+    Used by the “modbus” plugin to communicate with Modbus/TCP devices. The
+    “modbus” plugin works with version 2.0.3 of the library – due to frequent
+    API changes other versions may or may not compile cleanly.
+    <http://www.libmodbus.org/>
 
   * libmysqlclient (optional)
     Unsurprisingly used by the `mysql' plugin.
@@ -623,7 +632,8 @@ Prerequisites
     <http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/>
 
   * libpython (optional)
-    Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, only 2.3 ≦ Python < 3 is supported.
+    Used by the `python' plugin. Currently, Python 2.3 and later and Python 3
+    are supported.
     <http://www.python.org/>
 
   * librabbitmq (optional; also called “rabbitmq-c”)