+2018-10-22, Version 5.8.1
+ * collectd: Fix "BaseDir" option. Thanks to Mariusz Białończyk and
+ Pavel Rochnyak. #2857
+ * collectd: improve error handling, check return values. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster.
+ * Build System: use "kstat.h", when available. Thanks to Dagobert
+ Michelsen and Pavel Rochnyak. #2784
+ * Build System: Fix distcheck on MacOS. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * Build System: add missing include of ""collectd.h"" to fix builds on
+ Solaris. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak.
+ * Build System: add endianess checks for AIX, fix GCC issue on Mac
+ byteorder, fix byteorder on Solaris, add fallback for endianess
+ conversion. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen (multiple cherry picks from
+ master).
+ * Build System: Out-of-tree builds have been fixed. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #2602
+ * Configuration: Error handling in the config parsing code has been
+ improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * Documentation: Fix typo in collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak.
+ #2760
+ * Documentation: update note on dpdkstat. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2613
+ * Various plugins: Errors found by the static code analysis tool
+ Coverity were fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2559, #2560, #2561,
+ #2562, #2563, #2565, #2568, #2575, #2579, #2580, #2588, #2589
+ * Ceph plugin: A segfault has been fixed. Thanks to Aleksei Zakharov and
+ Matthias Runge. #2572
+ * DF plugin: fix memory leak in error case. Thanks to Takahashi tsc.
+ * Exec plugin: check return value of "plugin_thread_create()". Thanks to
+ Florian Forster.
+ * Exec plugin: Handling of large groups has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Sridhar Mallem. #2696
+ * Exec plugin: Incorrect use of *putenv(3)* has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Daniel Vrátil.
+ * Exec plugin: A deadlock related to setting environment variables after
+ *fork()* has been fixed. Thanks to Daniel Vrátil.
+ * Intel PMU plugin: add core groups feature. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski.
+ #2681
+ * Intel PMU plugin: fix compatibility issue with collectd 5.8. Thanks to
+ Kamil Wiatrowski.
+ * Intel PMU plugin: fix possible "NULL" pointer dereference. Thanks to
+ Kamil Wiatrowski. #2676
+ * IPMI plugin: A segfault caused by a wrong data type has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Mariusz Szafrański. #2742
+ * IPMI plugin: The sensor configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyak. #2629
+ * memcached plugin: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyak. #2612
+ * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan-Philipp
+ Litza. #2076
+ * NTPd plugin: A memory leak in the error handling path has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2942
+ * OVS Stats plugin: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2590
+ * OVS Stats plugin: Fix reconnect after thread terminated. Thanks to
+ Volodymyr Mytnyk and Maram Tahhan. #2574
+ * Perl plugin: A compilation failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyak. #2732
+ * Perl plugin: Fix exporting notification meta data. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster.
+ * RRDtool plugin: Handling of very large "GAUGE" metrics has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2566
+ * Tail plugin: Several regressions have been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyak. #2535, #2587, #2611
+ * turbostat plugin: A potential segfault due to an incorrect *free()*
+ has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2948
+ * UUID plugin: Fix hostname setting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2723
+ * virt plugin: A segfault during error handling has been fixed. Thanks
+ to Ruben Kerkhof. {{Issue|2919]}
+ * Write Kafka plugin: A build failure due to a deprecated API call has
+ been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2607, #2628, #2640
+ * Write Prometheus plugin: Fix "MHD_USE_INTERNAL_POLLING_THREAD" flag in
+ newer libmicrohttpd. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2849
+ * Write Prometheus plugin: set "SO_REUSEADDRESS" on listening socket.
+ Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2570, #2673
+
2017-11-17, Version 5.8.0
* collectd: The core daemon is now completely licensed under the MIT
license.