+2016-09-11, Version 5.6.0
+ * Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS
+ has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
+ * Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config
+ are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Build system: Building with "-Werror" is now optional. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof. #1222
+ * Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been
+ fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof,
+ Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
+ * Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in
+ config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
+ * collectd: All command-line options now override global options from
+ the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
+ * collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been
+ added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to
+ Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
+ * collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to "FLUSH" callbacks.
+ Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
+ * collectd: The "-T" command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks
+ to Corey Kosak. #1642
+ * collectd: The max size of value list elements ("DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN")
+ has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy
+ Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120
+ * Set target: The "MetaData" option has been added. Thanks to Yves
+ Mettier and Kevin Bowling. #1106, #1656, #1913
+ * AMQP, Write_HTTP, Write_Kafka plugins: Support for libyajl < 2 has
+ been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * APC UPS plugin: Parsing of end markers has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster #617
+ * APC UPS plugin: The "PersistentConnection" option has been added.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster #617
+ * ceph, DNS, Exec, IPTables, Ping, turbostat plugins: When running
+ unprivileged, these plugins will now warn about insuffiscient
+ permissions or capabilities(7). Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1530
+ * Chrony plugin: This new plugin collects NTP data from the chrony NTP
+ server. Thanks to Claudius Zingerli. #1548
+ * cpusleep plugin: This new plugin measures time spent by CPU in deep
+ sleep mode. Thanks to Rinigus. #1826
+ * CPU plugin: The "ReportNumCpu" option has been added. Thanks to Fabien
+ Wernli.
+ * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML plugins: The new "Statistics" reports
+ various per-HTTP connection timers. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1004
+ * DBI plugin: The "Interval" option has been added to "Database" blocks.
+ Thanks to Michal Bebjak.
+ * Disk plugin: Support for FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Xin Li,
+ Brad Davis, Ruben Kerfhof and Kevin Bowling.
+ * Empty Counter match: Support for derives has been implemented. Thanks
+ to Florian Forster. #1813
+ * GenericJMX plugin: Support for TabularData and the "PluginName" option
+ have been added. Thanks to David Crane. #1290, #1291
+ * GPS plugin: This new plugin reports the number of sattelites seen by
+ and precision of a GPS receiver. Thanks to Nicolas Jourden. #1346
+ * gRPC plugin: This new client and server plugin allows sending and
+ receiving metrics using the gRPC protocol. Comparable to the UnixSock
+ plugin, but using TCP and TLS. Thanks to Sebastian Harl and Florian
+ Forster.
+ * Interface plugin: Reporting dropped packets has been added. Thanks to
+ Marc Falzon. #1555
+ * Interface plugin: The "ReportInactive" has been added, letting users
+ skip inactive network interfaces. Thanks to Rinigus. #1791
+ * Interface plugin: The new, Solaris-only "UniqueName" option has been
+ added. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam. #1416
+ * Lua plugin: This new language binding allows writing plugins using the
+ Lua programming language. Thanks to Julien Ammous, Florian Forster and
+ Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Memory plugin: Reporting of ARC memory on Solaris has been added.
+ Thanks to Brian ONeill.
+ * MQTT plugin: This new plugin sends metrics to and/or receives metrics
+ from an MQTT broker. Thanks to Marc Falzon, Jan-Piet Mens, Nicholas
+ Humfrey and Florian Forster. #805, #1124
+ * MySQL plugin: Connection to the database server can now be done over
+ SSL. Thanks to Brian Lalor. #1256
+ * MySQL plugin: Monitoring slow queries has been added. Thanks to skob.
+ #1773
+ * MySQL plugin: mysql_bpool_pages-flushed has been renamed to
+ mysql_bpool_counters-pages_flushed because the value is cumulative.
+ Thanks to Marek Becka.
+ * MySQL plugin: Support for Galera statistics has been added. Thanks to
+ Rachid Zarouali. #1849
+ * MySQL plugin: Support for InnoDB metrics was improved. Thanks to Aman
+ Gupta. #1111
+ * MySQL plugin: The "mysql_sort" type has been split into 3 different
+ types. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1592
+ * Network plugin: Decryption error logging has been improved. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyack. #1735
+ * Notify Nagios plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to Nagios as
+ a passive check result. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * NTPd plugin: The plugin now detects if the ntp daemon reports
+ nanoseconds instead of microseconds. Thanks to Matwey V. Kornilov.
+ #1783
+ * OpenLDAP plugin: Several connection-related improvements have been
+ made. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1308
+ * OpenLDAP plugin: Support for "simple authentication" has been added.
+ Thanks to Marek Becka. #1087
+ * Ping plugin: The "Size" option has been added, allowing the ICMP data
+ payload size to be configured. Thanks to Witold Baryluk. #1395
+ * PostgreSQL, DBI, Oracle plugins: The new "PluginInstanceFrom" option
+ has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1707
+ * PowerDNS plugin: The recursor metrics have been updated to 3.7.3 and
+ missing rr types have been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Processes plugin: Counting of context switches was added for Linux.
+ Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1036
+ * Processes plugin: Improve reliability of thread counts on Linux.
+ Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
+ * Python plugin: Minimal Python version requirement has been bumped to
+ 2.6. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1864
+ * Redis plugin: Several additional metrics are now collected. Thanks to
+ Marc Falzon and Matteo Contrini. #1807, #1483
+ * Sensors plugin: The "UseLabels" option has been added. Thanks to
+ Christian Fetzer.
+ * SMART plugin: The new "IgnoreSleepMode" option has been added. Thanks
+ to Scott Talbert. #1770
+ * SMART plugin: The new "UseSerial" option allows identifying devices in
+ a stable way. Thanks to Scott Talbert. #1794
+ * SNMP plugin: The "IpAddress" can now be used for instances. Thanks to
+ Vincent Bernat. #1397
+ * StatsD plugin: Latency calculation histogram is now able to shrink
+ automatically to optimal size. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1622
+ * StatsD plugin: The "CounterSum" option has been added. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #929, #1282, #1311
+ * UUID plugin: The plugin now also looks in in smbios system table and
+ "/sys/class/dmi". Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1490
+ * virt plugin: The "PluginInstanceFormat" option has been added. Thanks
+ to Ruben Kerkhof. #1100
+ * Write Graphite plugin: The "ReconnectInterval" option has been added.
+ Thanks to Toni Moreno and Florian Forster.
+ * Write HTTP plugin: A KairosDB formatter has been added. Thanks to
+ Aurélien Rougemont. #1809
+ * Write HTTP plugin: Notifications are now handled by this plugin.
+ Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * Write HTTP plugin: The "LogHttpError" option has been added. Thanks to
+ vzubko.
+ * Write HTTP plugin: The new "Headers" option allows setting custom HTTP
+ headers in outgoing requests. Thanks to Brandon Arp. #1634
+ * Write Kafka plugin: Key handling has been made more comprehensive and
+ reliable. Thanks to Florian Forster, Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Vincent
+ Bernat. #1765, #1695, #1393
+ * Write Redis plugin: The "Database", "MaxSetSize", "Prefix" and
+ "StoreRates" options have been added. Thanks to Brian Kelly and
+ Sebastian Pfahl.
+ * Write Riemann plugin: The new "BatchFlushTimeout" and "Timeout" option
+ have been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Gergely Nagy.
+ * Write Riemann plugin: This plugin now requires the riemann-c-client
+ library, version 1.6.0+. This adds support for submitting values to
+ Riemann over TLS. Thanks to Gergely Nagy. #986
+ * Write TSDB, Write Sensu, Write Riemann, Write Graphite, Write TSDB
+ plugin: TCP keepalive is now enabled, helping graceful recovery from
+ unclean network disconnections. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1549
+ * XenCPU plugin: This new plugin collects XEN Hypervisor CPU stats.
+ Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1608
+ * ZFS ARC plugin: Several new statistics have been added and a couple of
+ obsolete ones removed. Thanks to Brad Davis, Brian ONeill and Ruben
+ Kerkhof.
+ * Zone plugin: This new plugin reads per-zone CPU usage on Solaris.
+ Thanks to Mathijs Mohlmann and Dagobert Michelsen.
+
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.
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