+2019-06-13, Version 5.9.0
+ * Build System: configure.ac: option "--with-libxml2" has been added.
+ Thanks to Dimitrios Apostolou, Pavel Rochnyak. #2864
+ * Build System: configure.ac: run dpdk build tests only if pkgconfig
+ fails. Thanks to Luca Boccassi, Pavel Rochnyak. #3015
+ * Build System: The "df" plugin is now built when "getmntent_r()" is
+ available. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3095
+ * Build System: The ability to turn on collectd "debug" feature in RPMs
+ has been added. Thanks to dehotot. #2755
+ * collectd: A new "UNKNOWN" state as the initial state of metrics has
+ been added. Thanks to Luis Fernández Álvarez, Florian Foster. #2976
+ * collectd: Base port to Windows. Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2810
+ * collectd: Code ownership of five plugins has been handed out to folks
+ from Intel. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3053
+ * collectd: config parser: Improved error reporting on global options.
+ Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2813
+ * collectd: daemon: make plugin_dispatch_multivalue() obey write queue
+ limits. Thanks to Adam Romanek. #2898
+ * collectd: Macros "STRERROR" and "STRERRNO" have been added. Thanks to
+ Florian Foster. #2519
+ * collectd: Plugin name field has been added to plugin context to
+ improve error reporting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2821
+ * collectd-tg: Use "CLOCK_REALTIME" for collectd-tg times. Thanks to
+ Andrew Bays. #2837
+ * tree-wide: Don't initialize static pointers to NULL, use "bool" from
+ "stdbool.h" (instead of "_Bool"). Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2771,
+ #2772
+ * tree-wide: Replace zu with "PRIsz" and llu with "PRIu64". Thanks to
+ Sean Campbell. #2512
+ * tree-wide: Use interval value from plugin context, do not set
+ "vl->interval" in plugins more. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2847
+ * tree-wide: Utilities and libraries have been moved to "src/utils/".
+ Thanks to Florian Foster. #2961
+ * AMPQ1 plugin: A new plugin to write to amqp1 protocol. Thanks to Andy
+ Smith. #2618
+ * Chrony plugin: Ignoring late responses has been added. Thanks to
+ Miroslav Lichvar, Pavel Rochnyak. #2896
+ * CPUFreq plugin: Read number of p-state transitions and time spent in
+ each p-state. Thanks to Sexton Rory. #2803
+ * cURL, cURL-XML plugins: Option "Interval" has been added. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyak. #2847
+ * Disk plugin: Report number of in progress disk IO requests on FreeBSD.
+ Thanks to Nathan Huff. #2878
+ * Exec plugin: Dynamic allocation of grname buffer has been added.
+ Thanks to sreedi, Florian Foster. #2937
+ * GPU NVML plugin: New plugin to collect NVIDIA GPU stats. Thanks to
+ Evgeny Naumov. #2923
+ * gRPC plugin: The "VerifyPeer" option for servers has been added.
+ Thanks to Florian Foster. #2593
+ * Intel RDT plugin: Support for groups of PIDs has been added. Thanks to
+ Wojciech Andralojc, Mateusz Starzyk, Michal Aleksinski. #2891
+ * IPMI plugin: Config options "SELSensor" and "SELIgnoreSelected" have
+ been added. Thanks to Mariusz Szafranski. #2796
+ * Modbus plugin: Support for 64 bit vals has been added, support for
+ CDAB endian 32-bit modbus polls has been added. Thanks to Anthony
+ Vickers, PJ Bostley. #2670, #2660
+ * Modbus plugin: The "Scale" and "Shift" metrics have been added. Thanks
+ to cekstam. #2729
+ * Netlink plugin: Handle new counter from Linux kernel version 4.6+.
+ Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2767
+ * Network plugin: Option "BindAddress" has been added. Thanks to Ofir
+ Hermesh. #2831
+ * Ping plugin: An "AddressFamily" configuration option has been added.
+ Thanks to 依云 lilydjwg. #2961
+ * OVS Stats plugin: Extended metrics "ovs-dpdk" have been added. Thanks
+ to Matteo Croce, Ryan McCabe. #3000
+ * OVS Stats plugin: Support of bond interface and a "InterfaceStats"
+ config option have been added. Thanks to Andrew Bays. #2880
+ * PCIe Errors plugin: New plugin to read "PCIe" errors. Thanks to Kamil
+ Wiatrowski. #2733
+ * Processes plugin: Support for Linux Delay Accounting has been added.
+ Thanks to Florian Foster. #2598
+ * Redis plugin: Keyspace "hitratio" metric has been added, metric
+ "operations_per_second" has been removed, an option for connecting via
+ UNIX socket has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2838, #2845,
+ #2904
+ * RouterOS plugin: Support for temperature and voltage data has been
+ added, use MAC-address when Radio-name is missing. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyak. #2851, #2854
+ * RRDCacheD plugin: Time resolution has been improved to microseconds.
+ Thanks to Brian T. O'Neill. #3065
+ * Sensors plugin: Checks for upper limit of "SENSORS_API_VERSION" have
+ been removed, support for libsensors older than 3.0.0 has been
+ dropped. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3013, #3014
+ * SNMP plugin: New options "PluginInstance", "TypeInstance",
+ "TypeInstanceOID", "PluginInstanceOID", "FilterOID", "FilterValues"
+ and "FilterIgnoreSelected" have been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak.
+ #2817, #2819
+ * SNMP Agent plugin: Multiple key indexes to snmp table and other new
+ features have been added, refactoring, coverity scan issues have been
+ fixed. Thanks to Marcin Mozejko. #2702, #2844
+ * Swap plugin: Support for Linux 2.4 has been dropped. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyak. #2979
+ * Turbostat plugin: Configuration option "RestoreAffinityPolicy" has
+ been added. Thanks to Pablo Llopis. #2627
+ * Turbostat plugin: New metrics "P-states", "Turboboost", "Platform
+ TDP", "Uncore bus ratio" have been added. Thanks to Sexton Rory. #2806
+ * Turbostat plugin: Support of reporting GPU power on SKL has been
+ added. Thanks to Gordon Kelly. #2605
+ * virt plugin: Allow read "Hostname" from libvirt metadata. Thanks to
+ Mehdi ABAAKOUK. #2807
+ * virt plugin: Block info statistics for disk devices have been added.
+ Thanks to Radoslaw Jablonski. #2874
+ * Wireless plugin: A "bitrate" metric has been added. Thanks to Florian
+ Foster. #2950
+ * Write Graphite, Write Kafka plugins: Support for Graphite 1.1+ tag has
+ been added. Thanks to Dan Cech. #2631
+ * Write Prometheus plugin: Option "Host" has been added. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyak. #2969
+ * Write Stackdriver plugin: New plugin to write to Google Stackdriver
+ Monitoring. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2472
+ * Write Syslog plugin: "write_syslog" plugin writes values lists as
+ syslog messages. Thanks to Shirly Radco. #3019
+ * Build System: A warning that pkgdatadir and pkglibdir were previously
+ defined has been fixed, additional plugins have been enabled,
+ GNULIB_DIR has been added to LDFLAGS in configure.ac on Windows.
+ Thanks to Sean Campbell. #2907, #2885, #2882
+ * Build System: Including "utils/mount/mount.h" has been fixed. Thanks
+ to Florian Foster. #3097
+ * Build System: The amount of output from ./configure has been reduced,
+ rendering of collectd-lua(5) manpage has been fixed, don't hide errors
+ when creating manpage. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3086, #3088, #3092
+ * collectd: A bug in "c_avl_iterator_prev" has been fixed. Thanks to
+ volth. #2917
+ * collectd: A stringop compiler warning has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof, Juan Osorio Robles. #3021
+ * collectd: An invalid memory access in the "strjoin()" function has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3063
+ * collectd: collectd binary has been refactored. Thanks to Sean
+ Campbell, Sebastian Harl. #2745
+ * collectd: collectdmon cannot exit command line options parse loop has
+ been fixed. Thanks to takahashi-tsc. #2774
+ * collectd: Endianness checks for AIX have been added, gcc issue on Mac
+ byteorder has been fixed, fallback for endianness conversion has been
+ added. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #2761, #2741, #2717
+ * collectd: Handle failure of simple config callbacks. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof. #3085
+ * collectd: Include "kstat.h" if available to provide "kstat_ctl_t",
+ include "kstat.h" when available. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #2716,
+ #2711
+ * collectd: Parsing option for avoiding making BaseDir has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Mariusz Białończyk. #2856
+ * collectd: Remove empty "cmd_listval_t" data structure and related
+ no-op code. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2779
+ * collectd: src/daemon/plugin.c: Refactor plugin_load_file(),
+ src/utils_format_json.c: Remove chatty debug messages. Thanks to
+ Florian Foster. #2558, #2938
+ * collectd: Stop poisoning function in debug mode. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof. #2804
+ * collectd: The number of allocations when parsing types.db has been
+ reduced. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3091
+ * collectd: The organization of the source repository has been improved.
+ Thanks to Florian Foster. #2961
+ * collectd: Typos have been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster, Jakub
+ Jankowski, William Pursell. #2944, #2692, #2643
+ * tree-wide: cleanup: cf_util_get* instead of local copy in plugins,
+ prefixed error reporting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2833
+ * tree-wide: Some style issues have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ #3022
+ * tree-wide: "sstrerror()" has been replaced with "STRERRNO". Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyak. #2735
+ * AMQP1 plugin: Potential memory leaks found via scan-build have been
+ fixed, a typo in error log message has been fixed, cleanups. Thanks to
+ Andy Smith, Andrew Bays, Ruben Kerkhof. #2802, #2876, #2797
+ * Barometer plugin: Support to "libi2c-4.0" has been added. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyak. #2783
+ * DBI, Oracle, PostgreSQL plugins: Fixes and improvements. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyak. #1705
+ * Disk plugin: "HAVE_UDEV_H" has been changed to "HAVE_LIBUDEV_H".
+ Thanks to Dylan Stephano-Shachter. #2668
+ * Disk plugin: In linux, reset the disk when it disappears from
+ "/proc/diskstats". Thanks to Nikita Kozlov, Pavel Rochnyak. #2551
+ * DPDK Events, DPDK Stats plugins: Buffer size for parsing lcores has
+ been increased, a deprecation warning has been fixed, runtime config
+ file path has been fixed. Thanks to Kevin Laatz. #2722, #2840, #2924
+ * DPDK Stats plugin: A compilation issue has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2524
+ * GPS plugin: Build with gpsd version 3.18 has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Baruch Siach. #2947
+ * Intel RDT plugin: Compiler warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof. #3104
+ * Log Logstash plugin: Non-portable struct initialization with "{}" has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2988
+ * LUA plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ #3090
+ * MySQL plugin: Properly cleanup dropped MySQL connections. Thanks to
+ Dhrupad Bhardwaj. #2704
+ * Netlink plugin: Truncation warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof. #2777
+ * NFS plugin: Message "Unexpected number of fields for NFSv4 server
+ statistics: 62" has been fixed. Thanks to Yedidyah Bar David. #2076
+ * NFS plugin: Number of fields for "NFSv4" has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Jan-Philipp Litza. #2915
+ * Notify Email plugin: All notification parameters have been included
+ into email. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2834
+ * NTPd plugin: Don't treat normal peers as refclocks, skip "0.0.0.0"
+ hosts in ntpd plugin. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak, Ivan Kurnosov. #2822,
+ #2376
+ * OAuth plugin: src/utils_oauth.c: Renew OAuth tokens 30 seconds before
+ they expire. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2970
+ * OVS Stats plugin: A macro to populate counters list has been added,
+ value of "OpenFlow" has been corrected. Thanks to Matteo Croce. #2966,
+ #2963
+ * OVS Stats plugin: Code style, cleanup and improvements. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyak. #3011, #3012
+ * OVS Stats, OVS Events plugins: utils_ovs: Avoid potential access of
+ freed memory, fixes. Thanks to Ciara Loftus, Mark Kavanagh. #2801,
+ #2731
+ * Processes plugin: Compilation has been fixed when ps_delay() is not
+ used. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2610
+ * Python plugin: A compilation warning with Python 3.7 has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Manoj Srivastava. #3042
+ * Redis plugin: Bugfixes, extended error reporting, persistent
+ connections and parallel polling, ability to select db for queries has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak, skob. #2826, #2789
+ * Router OS plugin: Unset radio-name showing up as "(null)" has been
+ fixed. Thanks to melak. #2740
+ * RRDCacheD plugin: Cleanup rrdcached plugin a bit. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyak. #3080
+ * RRDTool plugin: Error reporting has been extended. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyak. #2825
+ * Sensors plugin: Support for humidity sensors has been added. Thanks to
+ Sarah Fischmann. #2913
+ * Sensu, OVS Stat, Turbostat, virt, OAuth, Write Prometheus, Intel RDT
+ plugins: Compiler warnings have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ #3093, #3098, #3099, #3100, #3102, #3103, #3104
+ * virt plugin: Code "do {} while(0)" around macro has been removed.
+ Thanks to Florian Foster. #2579
+ * virt plugin: Compiler warnings, a segfault in libvirt, typo in error
+ messages have been fixed. Thanks to Antoine Naud, Ruben Kerkhof, sarah
+ niuxu18. #2808, #2919, #2957
+ * virt plugin: Optional "virDomainGetCPUStats()" has been removed from
+ main flow, cleanup. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2972, #2978
+ * virt plugin: Tracking of VM state changes has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Radoslaw Jablonski. #2701
+ * Write MongoDB plugin: Plugin dependencies have been fixed. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyak. #3010
+ * Write Prometheus plugin: A compilation issue on Mac OS X has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #3059
+ * Write Redis plugin: Bug ""max_set_duration" deletes unexpected data"
+ has been fixed. Thanks to takahashi-tsc. #2773
+ * Write Stackdriver plugin: Potential NULL dereference and error
+ reporting have been fixed. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2960
+ * collectd.conf(5): a typo has been fixed, the tail plugin's
+ documentation has been improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Florian
+ Foster. #3087, #2994
+ * collectd.conf.pod: virt: "Instances" option has been documented, a
+ clarifying example has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak, Fabien
+ Wernli. #2990, #2903
+ * collectd-python: "Import" configuration option has been documented.
+ Thanks to Tyler Harper. #2985
+ * collectd-snmp.pod: Document thread usage correctly. Thanks to Nathan
+ Ward. #3078
+ * CONTRIBUTING.md: Improve wording around ChangeLog; fix example,
+ document the new change log requirement / behavior. Thanks to Florian
+ Foster. #3061, #3054
+ * docs/review_comments.md: document with frequent review comments has
+ been started. Thanks to Florian Foster. #2964
+ * README: Include compiler defenses suggestion, do not point users to
+ non-existing file. Thanks to Kevin Laatz, Ruben Kerkhof. #2721, #2045
+
2018-10-23, Version 5.8.1
* collectd: Fix "BaseDir" option. Thanks to Mariusz Białończyk and
Pavel Rochnyak. #2857