[collectd] Version 4.7.0 available

[Florian Forster]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce version 4.7.0 of collectd, the system statistics
collection daemon.

Being a new minor verion, collectd 4.7.0 introduces new features: It
comes with nine new plugins and numerous improvements to existing
plugins. A detailed list of changes is attached below.


Download
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As usual, you can download the sourcecode distribution from the project
homepage:

  http://collectd.org/files/collectd-4.7.0.tar.bz2
  http://collectd.org/files/collectd-4.7.0.tar.gz


Thanks
------

A big thank you to all contributors who helped to shape this release.
Your participation is very appreciated!

  Amit Gupta
  Doug MacEachern
  Edward Koko Konetzko
  Eric Reed
  Franck Lombardi
  Marco Chiappero
  Rodolphe Quiédeville
  Sebastian Harl
  Simon Kuhnle
  Tomasz Pala

Also big thanks to people who have contributed auxiliary scripts,
configuration example, etc.:

  Adrian Perez
  Clay Loveless
  Bruno Prémont

Further thanks to Doug MacEachern, Simon Kuhnle and Ulf Zimmerman for
providing a build systems / accounts for various operating systems.

Last but not least, big thanks to Sebastian for his hard work on
the Debian package, plugins, the core daemon, build system and
documentation!


ChangeLog
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2009-05-11, Version 4.7.0
  * apache plugin: Support to query multiple servers has been added. 
    Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch. 
  * apache plugin: Handling of lighttpd's scoreboard statistics has been
    improved. Thanks to Amit Gupta for the patch. 
  * conntrack plugin: The new conntrack plugin collects the connection
    tracking table size. Thanks to Tomasz Pala for the patch. 
  * fscache plugin: The new fscache plugin collects statistics about
    Linux' file-system based caching framework. Thanks to Edward 
    Konetzko for the patch. 
  * gmond plugin: The new gmond plugin can receive and interpret
    multicast traffic from Ganglia's gmond daemon.
  * java plugin: The new java plugin exports the collectd API to Java,
    making it possible to write extensions to collectd in Java.
  * memcachec plugin: The new memcachec plugin queries data from a 
    memcached daemon and parses it similar to the cURL plugin. Thanks to
    Doug MacEachern for the initial code.
  * memcached plugin: Support for connections over UNIX domain sockets
    has been added. Thanks to Franck Lombardi for the patch. 
  * memory plugin: Support for OpenBSD and possibly other *BSDs has been
    added. Thanks to Simon Kuhnle for the patch. 
  * mysql plugin: Support to query multiple databases has been added. 
    Thanks to Doug MacEachern for the patch. 
  * mysql plugin: Master/slave statistics have been added. 
  * mysql plugin: Lock statistics have been added. Thanks to Rodolphe
    Quiédeville for the patch. 
  * network plugin: The possibility to sign or encrypt network traffic
    has been added. 
  * protocols plugin: The new protocols plugin provides information
    about network protocols, such as IP, TCP and UDP.
  * snmp plugin: The intervals given in the configuration of the SNMP
    plugin must no longer be a multiple of the global interval.
  * table plugin: The new Table plugin provides parsing for table-like
    structured files, such as many files beneath /proc. 
  * ted plugin: The new TED plugin reads power consumption measurements
    from “The Energy Detective” (TED). Thanks to Eric Reed for this
    plugin.
  * onewire plugin: The new `Interval' option allows collecting
    information from OneWire sensors at arbitrary intervals.
  * ping plugin: Support for collecting the drop rate and standard
    deviation of round-trip times has been added. 
  * uptime plugin: The new uptime plugin can collect the server's
    uptime. Thanks to Marco Chiappero for the patch. 


Best regards,
-octo
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Florian octo Forster
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