Bump version to 5.7.0; Update ChangeLog.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+2016-12-12, Version 5.7.0
+       * Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks
+         to Florian Forster
+       * Documentation: The semantics of the "TypesDB" option have been
+         improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+       * collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been
+         added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749
+       * collectd: Threads now get named, making them easier to track using
+         tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada
+         and Marc Fournier. #547
+       * AMQP plugin, Write Graphite plugin, Write Kafka plugin: The new
+         "[Graphite]PreserveSeparator" option allows retaining the default dot
+         separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419
+       * Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been
+         added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795
+       * CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang.
+         #1957
+       * Collectd::Unixsock: Fractional seconds support has been made more
+         robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052
+       * DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics.
+         Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim
+         Jones. #1649
+       * gRPC plugin: The "DispatchValues" option has been renamed to
+         "PutValues". Thanks to Florian Forster.
+       * HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to
+         Benjamin Gilbert. #631
+       * Hugepages plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used and free
+         hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones
+         and Florian Forster. #1799
+       * Intel RDT plugin: This new plugin collects statistics exposed by
+         Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970
+       * memcached plugin: The new "Address" option allows connecting to a
+         different server than specified by the "Host" option. Thanks to Pavel
+         Rochnyack. #1975
+       * nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added.
+         Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609
+       * Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new
+         "RegisterLegacyFlush" option has been added. Thanks to Pavel
+         Rochnyack. #1731
+       * PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time.
+         Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918
+       * Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made.
+         Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981
+       * RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed
+         operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959
+       * SpamAssassin: The plugin can now run in Perl's "tainted mode" ("-T").
+         Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962
+       * Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching
+         values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
+         #1700
+       * Tail plugin: The new "GaugePersist" option has been added. Thanks to
+         Florian Forster. #2015
+       * Target:Set, Target:Replace, Match:RegEx: MetaData support has been
+         added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930
+       * turbostat plugin: The new "LogicalCoreNames" option allows switching
+         to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056
+       * virt plugin: The new "BlockDeviceFormat" and
+         "BlockDeviceFormatBasename" options help controlling the names
+         reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004
+       * Write Graphite plugin: A new "DropDuplicateFields" option has been
+         added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915
+       * Write Kafka plugin: The "Key Random" setting has been reintroduced.
+         Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
+       * Write Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been
+         added, using the new "Format" configuration option. Thanks to Igor
+         Peshansky. #1924
+       * Write Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an
+         embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus'
+         collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967
+
 2016-11-30, Version 5.6.2
        * collectd: A compile error on AIX has been fixed: "MSG_DONTWAIT" is not
          available on AIX. Thanks to Chao Yang.

diff --git a/version-gen.sh b/version-gen.sh
index 56daf44..2083ec3 100755 (executable)
--- a/version-gen.sh
+++ b/version-gen.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-DEFAULT_VERSION="5.6.2.git"
+DEFAULT_VERSION="5.7.0.git"
 
 if [ -d .git ]; then
        VERSION="`git describe --dirty=+ --abbrev=7 2> /dev/null | grep collectd | sed -e 's/^collectd-//' -e 's/-/./g'`"