+2009-05-01, Version 4.7.0
+ * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added.
+ Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
+ * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
+ improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch.
+ * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
+ tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch.
+ * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
+ Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward
+ Konetzko for the patch.
+ * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
+ multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
+ * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
+ making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
+ * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a
+ memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
+ Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
+ * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
+ has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch.
+ * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
+ added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added.
+ Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch.
+ * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added.
+ * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
+ Quiédeville for the patch.
+ * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
+ has been added.
+ * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
+ about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
+ * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
+ plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
+ * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
+ structured files, such as many files beneath /proc.
+ * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
+ from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
+ plugin.
+ * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
+ information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
+ * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
+ deviation of round-trip times has been added.
+ * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
+ uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch.
+
+ 2009-05-09, Version 4.5.4
+ * Build system, various plugins: Many build fixes for FreeBSD,
+ OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. Big thanks to Doug MacEachern
+ for many fixes and providing a build system for many platforms,
+ Ulf Zimmermann for providing a FreeBSD system and Simon Kuhnle for
+ providing an OpenBSD system.
+ * collectd: Fix a potential race condition when creating directories.
+ * battery plugin: Don't complain about a missing directory every
+ interval.
+ * dns plugin: Slight portability fixes.
+ * exec plugin: Allow executed programs to close STDERR. Thanks to
+ Thorsten von Eicken for reporting this problem.
+ * irq plugin: Fix handling of overflowing 32-bit counters. Thanks to
+ Tomasz Pala for the patch.
+ * perl plugin: Portability build-fixes. Thanks to Doug MacEachern for
+ the patch.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Fix a possible race condition: If the network plugin
+ is initialized and dispatches a value before the rrdtool plugin is
+ initialized, the daemon may crash.
+ * memory plugin: Fix a potential problem under Solaris.
+
2009-03-18, Version 4.6.2
* collectd: Some Solaris utility code has been improved.
* filter subsystem: Allow `Chains' without default targets.