+2012-04-01, Version 5.1.0
+ * Build system, iptables plugin: The shipped version of libiptc has
+ been removed.
+ * collectd-nagios: A list of value lists can now be queried using
+ "-n LIST". Thanks to Sebastian Harl for his patches.
+ * bind plugin: The "ParseTime" option has been added. It allows to use
+ the system time rather than the time reported by BIND.
+ * curl, memcachec, tail plugins: The "ExcludeRegexp" option has been
+ added. Thanks to Peter Warasin for his initial patch.
+ * ethstat plugin: The new "ethstat" plugin reads performance statistics
+ directly from ethernet cards. Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for his patch.
+ * GenericJMX plugin: Support for querying MBean "Operations" (in
+ addition to "Attributes") has been added. Thanks to Pierre-Yves
+ Ritschard for his patch.
+ * irq plugin: The selection / ignore code now uses the default
+ ignorelist infrastructure, providing the standard feature set, e.g.
+ regex matching.
+ * md plugin: The new "md" plugin reports the number of disks in various
+ states in Linux software RAID devices. Thanks to Michael Hanselmann
+ for his patch.
+ * modbus plugin: Support for signed integer register types has been
+ added.
+ * nfs plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to Cosmin
+ Ioiart for his patch.
+ * numa plugin: The new "numa" plugin reports statistics of the
+ Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) subsystem of Linux.
+ * processes plugin: Various fixes for the FreeBSD implementation.
+ Thanks to Phil Kulin for his patch.
+ * rrdcached plugin: Passing flushes to the caching daemon has been
+ added.
+ * sensors plugin: The initialization code has been improved. Thanks to
+ Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for his patch.
+ * swap plugin: The "ReportByDevice" option has been added.
+ * syslog plugin: Support for writing notifications has been added.
+ Thanks to Fabien Wernli for his patch.
+ * tcpconns plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to Manuel
+ Luis Sanmartín Rozada for his patch.
+ * threshold plugin: The "PersistOK" option has been added. Thanks to
+ Aaron Brady for his patch.
+ * varnish plugin: Support for Varnish 3.0 has been added. Thanks to
+ Jérôme Renard for his patches.
+ * write_mongodb plugin: The new "write_mongodb" plugin writes value
+ lists to MongoDB, a shema-less database. Thanks to Akkarit Sangpetch
+ and Chris Lundquist for their work.
+ * write_graphite plugin: The new "write_graphite" plugin writes value
+ lists to Carbon, the storage layer of the Graphite time-series
+ database. Thanks to Scott Sanders and Pierre-Yves Ritschard for their
+ work.
+ * zfs_arc plugin: Several new statistics have been added. Thanks to
+ Aurelien Rougemont for his patches.
+ * scale target: Support for scaling specific data sources only has been
+ added. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for his patch.
+
+ 2012-11-11, Version 5.0.5
+ * collectd: Create new directories with mode 0777 and let umask remove
+ unwanted permission bits.
+ * collectd: Build issues have been fixed.
+ * collectd: An incorrect assertion has been fixed in some common code
+ for Solaris. This should resolve pseudo-random assertion failures
+ under Solaris. Thanks to Jeff Blane for his help debugging this.
+ * collectd: A couple of memory leaks through PThread thread attributes
+ have been fixed. Thanks to Gerrie Roos for fixing these.
+ * collectdctl: Fix PUTVAL for data sets with multiple data sources.
+ Thanks to Cyril Feraudet for reporting this problem.
+ * contrib/migrate-4-5.px: Handle to "df" to "df_complex" conversion
+ correctly.
+ * apcups plugin: Improve the reconnect behavior.
+ * curl_xml plugin: The "Host" setting was silently ignored. Thanks to
+ Fabien Wernli for fixing this.
+ * df plugin: Ignore "rootfs" devices under Linux to avoid having them
+ reported twice. Thanks to Brune Prémont for fixing this.
+ * disk plugin: Fix incorrect computation of read and write latency (the
+ "disk_time" type). Previously, the numbers reported where too small
+ by a factor of "interval", e.g. when the interval is set to 10
+ seconds, the values were too low by a factor of 10. Thanks to Manuel
+ Sanmartin for reporting this problem.
+ * dns plugin: A build issue under Solaris has been fixed. A erroneous
+ define that could lead to the reporting of bad data has been fixed by
+ Daniel Sutto.
+ * memcachec plugin: A bug in the configuration handling has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Pascal Hofmann for fixing this issue.
+ * mysql plugin: Fix a bug when registering multiple databases. Thanks
+ to Sebastian Harl for fixing this.
+ * netapp plugin: Correctly close the connection on communication
+ errors.
+ * netlink plugin: The function used to query statistics has been
+ changed to be more in line with iproute2's behavior. Thanks to
+ "KIvosak" for the patch.
+ * network plugin: Initialization of libgcrypt has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Chris Lundquist for his patch.
+ * oracle plugin: Error messages have been improved.
+ * ping plugin: Don't enter the exponential back-off mode when
+ ping_send() fails. This should make recovery after a network failure
+ much faster.
+ * python plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Tommie Gannert
+ and Sven Trenkel for fixing this.
+ * redis plugin: Fix a compilation problem on FreeBSD. Thanks to
+ "biancalana" for the fix.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix an out-of-bounds array access when printing a
+ warning message. Thanks to Will Hawkins for fixing this bug.
+ * snmp plugin: Support for the SNMP_ENDOFMIBVIEW return value has been
+ added. Support for more complex / unusual MIBs / subtrees has been
+ added. Thanks to Mark Juric to test the changes and point out these
+ problems.
2012-04-01, Version 5.0.4
* Build system: Fix the use of a libltdl macro. Thanks to Clemens Lang