Hello everybody, we're proud to announce the availability of collectd 5.7.0. This is a feature release which introduces many new plugins and features, a complete list of changes is below.
As announced previously, with the availability of this release we're discontinuing support for version 5.5. Download -------- The new version is available in source-code form from collectd's download page. The direct download links are: * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.7.0.tar.bz2 SHA-256: 25a05fbdc6baad571554342bbac6141928bf95a47fc60ee3b32e46d0c89ef2b2 Thanks ------ Thanks to everybody who contributed to this version. In particular: * Akos Vandra * Benjamin Gilbert * Brock Johnson * Chao Yang * Dave Cunningham * Deyan Chepishev * Florian Forster * Fredrik Sandebert * Harry van Haaren * Igor Peshansky * Jaroslav Safka * John Conroy * Kim Jones * Korynkevych, RomanX * Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada * Marc Fournier * Maryam Tahhan * Matthias Bethke * Michael Leinartas * Mytnyk, VolodymyrX * Pavel Rochnyack * Pshyk, SerhiyX * Rinigus * Ruben Kerkhof * Sebastian Harl * Taras Chornyi * Tomasz Torcz ChangeLog --------- 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 Best regards, —octo -- collectd – The system statistics collection daemon Website: http://collectd.org Google+: http://collectd.org/+ GitHub: https://github.com/collectd Twitter: http://twitter.com/collectd
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