5.11.0

New features

• collectd: A Code of Conduct has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #3401
• text protocol: Support for meta_data in PUTVAL has been added. Thanks to Rafael Marinheiro, Dagobert Michelsen. #3381, #2726
• utils_cache: Internal API has changed - exposed meta_data_toc function. Thanks to Javier Kohen. #3339
• filter_chain: Auto load matches and targets if AutoLoadPlugin option is set. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1034
• AMQP plugin: TLS support has been added. Thanks to Märt Bakhoff. #3391
• Battery plugin: Read from Linux sysfs charge files has been added. Thanks to Nimrod Maclomhair. #3190
• Buddyinfo plugin: New plugin for memory fragmentation info has been added. Thanks to Asaf Kahlon. #3303
• capabilities plugin: New plugin to read static platform data has been added. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski, Dagobert Michelsen. #3384, #3292
• DCPMM plugin: New plugin for Intel Optane DC Presistent Memory (DCPMM) has been added. Thanks to Hari TG. #3274
• DF plugin: LogOnce option has been added. Thanks to themylogin. #2910
• DPDK Telemetry plugin: New plugin to fetch DPDK metrics (with intent to replace dpdk_stat) has been added. Thanks to Reshma Pattan. #3273
• Disk plugin: A native (sysctl-based) implementation for NetBSD has been added. Thanks to Edgar Fuß, Dagobert Michelsen. #3379, #3334
• GPU_Nvidia‏‎ plugin: Configurable plugin instance by GPU name and/or GPU index has been added. Thanks to Robert Dietrich. #3264
• Intel_PMU plugin: Support for uncore multi pmu has been added. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski. #3388
• Ipstats plugin: New plugin to count incoming, outgoing, forwarded packets on FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Marco van Tol. #3187
• Java plugin: Support boolean input has been added. Thanks to Caden. #3044
• Logparser plugin: New plugin for filtering and parsing log messages has been added. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski, Krzysztof Matczak, Marcin Możejko, Adrian Boczkowski, Radosław Jabłonski. #3045
• Network plugin: New metadata "network:ip_address" has been added. Thanks to Takuro Ashie. #3191
• NFS plugin: An implementation for NetBSD (using sysctl) has been added. Thanks to Edgar Fuß, Dagobert Michelsen. #3377, #3333
• NUT plugin: Support for the "output.realpower" value from the ups code has been added. Thanks to Michael Poetters. #2528
• Redfish plugin: New read plugin to collect out-of-band sensor data from Redfish endpoints has been added. Thanks to Marcin Możejko, Adrian Boczkowski, Michal Kobyliński, Krzysztof Kepka, Man Singh, Zoltan Szabo. #2926
• Slurm plugin: The new SLURM plugin gathers metrics from the SLURM workload manager has been added. Thanks to Pablo Llopis. #3037
• Tail_CSV plugin: FieldSeparator option has been added. Thanks to Dheeraj Gupta. #3394
• UBI plugin: The new "ubifs" plugin reports block state for flash memory devices with UBIFS filesystem has been added. Thanks to Pierre Lebleu. #3204
• Write_HTTP plugin: Ability to configure cURL statistics has been added. Thanks to Nelson. #3265
• Write_Influxdb_UDP plugin: New plugin to send values to InfluxDB using line protocol via udp has been added. Thanks to Carlos Peón Costa. #3162
• Zookeeper plugin: 'quorum' stat has been added. Thanks to Chris Brown. #2991

Bug fixes / Cleanup / Improvements

• collectd: Missing package in specfile has been fixed. Thanks to Fabien Wernli. #3399
• collectd: Factored out read_text_file_contents for reading text files and used it to fix a potential unterminated string in the thermal plugin. Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #3359
• collectd: Error/warning messages has been extended with more information. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3386
• collectd: Regression caused by #3217 has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #3349
• build: version-gen.sh has been cleaned up. Thanks to William Pursell. #2635
• build: Linking with Python 3.8 has been fixed. Thanks to Alexander Meshcheryakov. #3344
• build: Avoid $< (implied source) in non-inference rules / Building grpc with non-GNU make has been fixed. Thanks to Edgar Fuß, Dagobert Michelsen. #3376, #3330
• filter_chain: Constant for max plugin name length introduced in #1034 has been fixed. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3385
• ignorelist: Coding style has been fixed. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3397
• match_regex: Accept all data types of meta data. Thanks to Takuro Ashie. #3231
• perl unixsock: Made the module robust against socket errors and disconnects. Thanks to Guillem Jover. #3083
• tree-wide: Race condition when setting thread names has been fixed. Thanks to Michael Kaufmann. #2762
• types.db: ping_droprate range spec has been fixed. Thanks to Yousong Zhou. #3244
• utils/format_graphite: Comma sign has been added to the list of prohibited characters. Thanks to Marat Salimzianov. #2998
• Aggregation plugin: Unreachable clause where both tmp_plugin and tmp_plugin_instance are non-empty has been fixed. Thanks to Ling Huang. #3350
• AMQP1 plugin: Leaks on error paths has been fixed. Thanks to Ryan McCabe. #3352
• Apache plugin: BusyWorkers/IdleWorkers update has been fixed. Thanks to Christian W. Zuckschwerdt. #3131
• CPU plugin, Memory plugin, Swap plugin, UUID plugin: Contain use of sysctl / sysctrlbyname to BSD variants, as deprecated on Linux. Thanks to Zebity Spring. #3342
• Exec plugin: Select has been replaced with poll to allow more then 1024 open file descriptors. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski. #3363
• GPU_Nvidia plugin: Build issues has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #3393
• Interface plugin: Reorder so that Linux-specific code is actually executed. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3378
• NFS plugin: Condition on existence of libkstat has been fixed. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3382
• Network plugin: Memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ryan McCabe. #3352
• Processes plugin: Number of running processes has been fixed. Thanks to Bart De Vos. #3243
• Write_Riemann plugin: Memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Fabien Wernli. #3351
• Write_Stackdriver plugin: NaN value handing with gauge metrics has been fixed. Thanks to Jaroslaw Przybylowicz. #3226