Version 5.7

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• Version-5.0

Version 5.7 has been released on Monday, December 12^th 2016. The newest release is 5.7.1 which as been released on Monday, January 23^rd 2017. This version is currently supported.

Changes

Release 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

Release 5.7.1

Released on Monday, January 23^rd 2017.

• 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.

Release 5.7.2

WiP: Changes up to edcf39cc377d2de0744412209de4eeb50ca7ed5f.

• 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