[collectd] New feature release 5.2.0 is available

[Florian Forster]

Hello everybody,

I've packaged a new feature release for collectd, version 5.2.0.

Starting with this release, it is possible to set a separate collection
interval for each and every read plugin. For example, you might want to query
the CPU plugin every 10 seconds, the Load plugin every minute and the DF plugin
every hour. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl who put a lot of effort into this!

Also new in this release are the aggregation plugin, a plugin for calculating
averages, sums, … over sets of values, the PF plugin which collects statistics
from BSD's packet filter and collectd-tg, a network traffic generator that can
be used for load testing.


Download
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The new version is available in source-code form from collectd's
download page. The direct download links are:

  * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.2.0.tar.bz2
    SHA-256: 3f8dd235b8e2493a4ad558e3cd15b89007a0deaaef5481782d1e8e048dd43e4f

  * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.2.0.tar.gz
    SHA-256: 47738dc3c58513bc2c941bf16f56c391570f942841f6cb7856197aa6975441f7


Thanks
------

Thanks to everybody who helped with these new versions. In particular:

  * biancalana
  * Cosmin Ioiart
  * Daniel Sutto
  * Davide Guerri
  * Ed Schouten
  * hume-github
  * Johan Kiviniemi
  * Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada
  * Marc Fournier
  * Mark Wong
  * Michael Stapelberg
  * Nicolas Szalay
  * Ruben Kerkhof
  * Sebastian Harl
  * Stefan Rinkes
  * Thomas Meson
  * Yves Mettier


ChangeLog
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2012-11-17, Version 5.2.0
  * collectd: The performance of the LISTVAL command has been improved.
    Thanks to Yves Mettier for the patch.
  * collectd: The possibility to configure the collection interval on a
    per-plugin basis has been added. Huge thanks to Sebastian Harl for
    his work.
  * collectd-tg: This new binary allows to generate random but real
    looking collectd network traffic. This can be used to load-test new
    plugin, for example.
  * libcollectdclient: Code for constructing and sending network packets
    in the binary format has been added.
  * aggregation plugin: This new plugin allows to aggregate multiple
    value lists into one.
  * amqp and write_http plugins: Meta data is now included in the JSON
    output format. Thanks to Mark Wong for the patch.
  * amqp plugin: Support for "Graphite" output has been added. Thanks to
    Thomas Meson for the patch.
  * contextswitch plugin: Support for AIX has been added. Thanks to
    Manuel Rozada for his patch.
  * disk plugin: The "UseBSDName" config option has been added to the
    Mac OS X version.
  * GenericJMX plugin: Automatically determine the host name if it isn't
    configured.
  * libvirt plugin: The "number" interface format has been added. Thanks
    to Davide Guerri for the patch.
  * memcached plugin: Support for multiple connections has been added.
    Thanks to Nicolas Szalay for the patch.
  * ntpd plugin: The "IncludeUnitID" config option has been added. The
    behavior when a peer is unreachable has been improved. Thanks to
    Johan Kiviniemi for the patches.
  * oracle plugin: The "Host" config option has been added.
  * pf plugin: This new plugin allows to collect statistics from BSD's
    packet filter "pf". Thanks to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Stefan Rinkes
    for their work.
  * postgresql plugin: The "Instance" config option has been added.
    Support for writing values to a PostgreSQL database has been added.
    Thanks to Sebastian Harl for the patches.
  * processes plugin: Support for Solaris has been added. Thanks to
    Cosmin Ioiart for the patch.
  * redis plugin: Support for authenticating via password has been added.
    Thanks to biancalana for the patch.
  * rrdcached plugin: The "HeartBeat", "RRARows", "RRATimespan",
    "StepSize" and "XFF" config options have been added.
  * swap plugin: The "ReportBytes" config option has been added. The AIX
    version now also exports "reserved" pages and swap-in / swap-out
    "traffic". Thanks to Manuel Rozada for the patch.
  * tcpconns plugin: Use a netlink socket rather than reading from /proc
    for improved performance. Thanks to Michael Stapelberg for the patch.


Best regards,
—octo
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