+2008-09-04, Version 4.5.0
+ * collectd: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers.
+ * collectd: The concept of `notification meta data' has been
+ introduced.
+ * filecount plugin: The new filecount plugin counts the number of
+ files in a directory and its subdirectories.
+ * ipmi plugin: Sensor names have been changed to ensure unique names.
+ Notifications upon added and removed sensors can now be generated.
+ * notify_desktop plugin: This new plugin sends notifications to the
+ X desktop using the structure defined in the `Desktop Notification
+ Specification'.
+ * notify_email plugin: This new plugin sends out notifications via
+ email, using the `esmtp' library.
+ * onewire plugin: The new experimental(!) onewire plugin reads values,
+ such as temperatures, from sensors connected to the computer via the
+ onewire bus.
+ * perl plugin: Improved synchronized access to internal data structures
+ and fixed a possible dead-lock.
+ * perl plugin: Added the ability to flush certain identifiers and marked
+ plugin_flush_all() and plugin_flush_one() as deprecated in favor of
+ plugin_flush().
+ * perl plugin: Added the ability to configure Perl plugins.
+ * postgresql plugin: The new postgresql plugin collects statistics
+ about or from a PostgreSQL database.
+ * processes plugin: The `ProcessMatch' option has been added.
+ * rrdtool plugin: Implement throttling of the `update queue' to lessen
+ IO load.
+ * tcpconns plugin: This plugin has been ported to OpenBSD.
+ * thermal plugin: The new thermal plugin collects system temperatures
+ using Linux ACPI thermal zone data.
+
+ 2008-10-16, Version 4.4.4
+ * build system: Change `--enable-<plugin>' to abort with an error if
+ dependencies are not met. Thanks to Bruno Prémont for the patch.
+ Also, the poisoning of various string functions has been restricted
+ to debug builds.
+ * collectd: Fix a memory leak in the global value cache. With every
+ *missing* value a couple of bytes would be leaked. Another memory
+ leak in the configuration handling code has been fixed. Thanks to
+ Niraj Tolia for reporting these issues.
+ * collectd: Fix an off-by-one error in the ignorelist functionality.
+ When using regular expressions, the last character would be missing,
+ possibly matching differently from what one would expect.
+ * collectdmon: Don't block SIGCHLD. This fixes a potential portability
+ problem.
+ * collectd-nagios: Fix handling of the `-d' option. Thanks to Fabian
+ Linzberger for reporting the but.
+ * network plugin: Fix a memory leak in the configuration handling
+ code. Thanks to Niraj Tolia for reporting this issue.
+ * perl plugin: Log an error message if bootstrapping `Collectd' fails.
+ * tail plugin: Call `clearerr' after reading an EOF. This fixes
+ problems with some `libc's. Thanks to Matthias Lay for reporting the
+ bug.
+
2008-09-01, Version 4.4.3
* collectd: Fix a memory leak in the threshold checking code.
* memcached plugin: Fix a too short timeout and a related file