+2017-06-06, Version 5.7.2
+ * Build system: The Notify Email plugin is no longer linked with
+ indirect dependencies. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * collectd: A race condition when calculating a metric's rate has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1193
+ * AMQP, Exec, UnixSock, Write Kafka plugins: Parsing of the PUTVAL
+ command with multiple values has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #2274
+ * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
+ publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
+ * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
+ Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local timezone when in
+ fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
+ * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ #2303
+ * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #2266
+ * DPDKStat plugin: Error handling during initialization has been
+ improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ * DPDKStat plugin: Handling of a number of metrics has been improved,
+ for example "rx_q0bytes". Thanks to Przemyslaw Szczerbik. #2167
+ * Intel RDT plugin: Configuration handling has been changed to be more
+ graceful. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2165
+ * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
+ "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
+ "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
+ infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
+ * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
+ resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
+ * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
+ triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
+ which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
+ and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
+ * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #2278
+ * Processes plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyack. #2210
+ * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
+ added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
+ metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
+ values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
+ * Write Prometheus plugin: An incorrect use of "realloc(3)" has been
+ fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2275
+
+2017-01-23, Version 5.7.1
+ * collectd: Handling of boolean configuration options has been unified.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
+ * collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #2108
+ * collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and
+ coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian
+ Forster.
+ * Build system: Parallel build have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ #2110
+ * DPDKStat plugin: Portability issues and a double-close bug have been
+ fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
+ * Intel RDT plugin: A check for the libpqos library version has been
+ added. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk.
+ * NetApp plugin: Compilation problems have been corrected. Thanks to
+ Florian Forster. #2120
+ * Write Prometheus plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
+ Kerkhof.
+
+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
+
+ 2017-10-06, Version 5.6.3
+ * collectd: support for boolean string config values has been
+ reintroduced. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
+ * collectd: The capability checking has been changed to use
+ "cap_get_proc()". Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2151
+ * Documentation: A section documenting ignore lists has been added to
+ collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Florian Forster.
+ * AMQP plugin: The "ExchangeType" option is now also valid for
+ publishers. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2286
+ * Apache, Ascent, BIND, cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML, nginx, Write HTTP
+ plugins: Handling of URLs that redirect elsewhere has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2328
+ * BIND plugin: Fix parsing of the sample time provided by BIND.
+ Previously, the time was assumed to be in the local time zone when in
+ fact it was in UTC. Thanks to Ed Ravin. #1268
+ * BIND plugin: Memory leaks have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
+ #2303
+ * Chrony plugin: Build flags have been fixed. Thanks to Thomas Jost and
+ Marc Fournier. #2133
+ * cURL-JSON plugin: The timeout value has been changed to default to the
+ collection interval. This fixes a regression. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * cURL-JSON plugin: Handling of arrays has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #2266
+ * DBI plugin: Memory leaks at shutdown have been fixes. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyack and Florian Forster.
+ * E-Mail, Exec, UnixSock plugins: Group ID lookup on systems with many
+ groups has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian Forster.
+ #2208
+ * IPC plugin: A compilation error on AIX has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyack. #2305
+ * LogFile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on
+ "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * Log Logstash plugin: If writing the log entry fails, print it to
+ "STDERR" instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * memcachec, Tail plugins: A resource leak in the matching
+ infrastructure has been fixed. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2192
+ * MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a
+ resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
+ * Network plugin: A potential endless-loop has been fixed. This can be
+ triggered remotely by sending a signed network packet to a server
+ which is not set up to check signatures. Thanks to Marcin Kozlowski
+ and Pavel Rochnyack. #2174, #2233, CVE-2017-7401
+ * Network plugin: A use-after-free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
+ Rochnyack. #2375
+ * Notify Email plugin: The plugin is no longer explicitly linked against
+ libssl and libcrypto, relies on libesmtp being linked correctly.
+ Thanks to Marc Fournier. Debian#852924
+ * NTPd plugin: Calculation of loop offset and error has been fixed.
+ Thanks to Neil Wilson. #2188
+ * OpenLDAP plugin: An incorrect use of the ldap library, leading to a
+ crash, has been fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #2331
+ * Perl plugin: A potential double-free has been fixed. Thanks to Florian
+ Forster. #2278
+ * Perl plugin: Print an error when an incorrect configuration is
+ encountered. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #927
+ * RRDtool plugin: Incorrect handling of the flushes timeout option has
+ been fixed. Handling of the "RandomTimeout" has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Pavel Rochnyack. #2363
+ * SMART plugin: Some warning messages have been removed and the code has
+ been cleaned up. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2062
+ * SMART plugin: A check for the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" capability has been
+ added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
+ * SNMP plugin: A double free has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack.
+ #2291
+ * Write Graphite plugin: Error handling in the case that calculating a
+ metric's rate fails has been improved. Previously, the raw counter
+ values were sent to Graphite. Thanks to Iain Buclaw. #2209
+ * Write Kafka plugin: A 32 bit random number is now used when formatting
+ a random key. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2074
+
++
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.
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