[collectd] Versions 5.4.2 and 5.3.2 available.

Florian Forster octo at collectd.org
Thu Feb 26 16:34:46 CET 2015


Hello everybody,

it's been a while. In fact, version 5.4.1 is 13 months old today. So
Marc Fournier and I set out and created two new bugfix releases, 5.4.2
and 5.3.2. This will likely be the last 5.3 release as we're planning a
feature release in the not-so-distant future.


Download
--------

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

  Version 5.4.2:

  * https://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.4.2.tar.bz2
    SHA-256: 9789e900c138b5dbe907d3d744143f12b1e30022276cb1d8c65bbabaf0c4e393

  * https://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.4.2.tar.gz
    SHA-256: 9778080ee9ee676c7130b1ce86c2843c7359e29b9bd1c1c0e48fcd9cccf089eb

  Version 5.3.2:

  * https://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.3.2.tar.bz2
    SHA-256: 0580eddeabfb2ee626e85677067d5a7b7f974d2edb3c45c3aae2f95fef1f4377

  * https://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.3.2.tar.gz
    SHA-256: 4c2eaeb8592dd43a228806937a4cb2630fd8cd21ccd9c24b8c066b506c471858


Thanks
------

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

  * Adrian Miron
  * Arthur Marble
  * Bjørn Nordbø
  * Ceri Storey
  * Chris Lundquist
  * Denis Boulas
  * Fabien Wernli
  * Florian Forster
  * Jan Kundrát
  * Jeremy Katz
  * Jim Radford
  * Joel Uckelman
  * John-John Tedro
  * John Leach
  * Justin Burnham
  * Katelyn Perry
  * Kevin Bowling
  * KOMEDA Shinji
  * Lauri Tirkkonen
  * Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada
  * Marc Fournier
  * Matthias Urlichs
  * Micha Krause
  * Pierre-Yves Ritschard
  * Rainer Müller
  * Ruben Kerkhof
  * Scott Sanders
  * Sebastian Harl
  * Tim Laszlo
  * Sven Trenkel
  * txaj
  * Vincent Bernat
  * Vladimir Smirnov
  * Wilfried Goesgens
  * Yoga Ramalingam
  * Yves Mettier


ChangeLog
---------
2015-02-26, Version 5.4.2
  * Build system: Numerous fixes. Thanks to Bjørn Nordbø, Jim Radford,
    KOMEDA Shinji, Lauri Tirkkonen, Manuel Luis Sanmartin Rozada, Marc
    Fournier, Rainer Müller, Yoga Ramalingam and Yves Mettier. #326,
    #373, #653, #828
  * collectd: A use-after-free has been fixed in the "parse_value()"
    function. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs.
  * collectd: Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to Marc
    Fournier and @NsLib.
  * collectd: Fix programming error in src/configfile.c. Thanks to
    Wilfried Goesgens.
  * collectd: An off-by-one error has been fixed in the
    "strstripnewline()" function. Patch by Florian Forster.
  * collectd: Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write
    failures. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
  * collectd: Spelling and grammar of error messages have been fixed.
    Thanks to Katelyn Perry and Tim Laszlo.
  * collectdctl: Fixed buffering issues which caused trouble on AIX and
    Solaris. Thanks to Yoga Ramalingam.
  * Documentation: Details and example about multi-instance filterchain
    targets have been added. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
  * Documentation: The "CollectStatistics" option of the rrdcached has
    been documented. Thanks to Micha Krause. #907
  * Documentation: The write_redis has been documented. Thanks to Marc
    Fournier.
  * Documentation: The "GraphiteSeparateInstances" and
    "GraphiteAlwaysAppendDS" options of the amqp have been documented.
    Thanks to Marc Fournier.
  * Documentation: Documentation of the "AutoLoadPlugin" option has been
    improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #715
  * aggregation: "utils_vl_lookup": A race when creating user objects
    has been fixed. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #535
  * cpu: Temperature code for Mac OS X has been removed.
    Thanks to Florian Forster and Marc Fournier. #22
  * cURL, cURL-JSON, cURL-XML and Write HTTP plugins: Call
    "curl_global_init()" in the plugins' "init()" callback. Thanks to
    Jeremy Katz.
  * cURL and memcachec plugins: Fix calculation of gauge, average,
    minimum and maximum. Previously, they were calculated from the start
    of the daemon, which is not the documented behavior. Thanks to
    Florian Forster. #663
  * curl-json: A bug, which triggered when two URLs with a long common
    prefix were configured, was fixed. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #582
  * dbi: Compatibility with new versions of libdbi has been restored.
    Thanks to Florian Forster. #950
  * Exec, UnixSock plugins: Fix parsing of the "time" option of the
    "PUTNOTIF" command. Thanks to Adrian Miron. #477
  * ipmi: A conflict with the java over the "SIGUSR2" signal has been
    fixed. Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #114
  * java: Conversion from Java's time representation to collectd's
    representation has been fixed. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín
    Rozada.
  * java: Make sure "cjni_thread_detach()" is called on all paths.
    Thanks to Florian Forster.
  * LogFile and SysLog plugins: Avoid total silence in case of a
    misconfiguration. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Wilfried Goesgens.
  * network: Support for recent versions of gcrypt has been added.
    Thanks to Vincent Bernat. #632
  * network: Robustness of the client connecting behavior has been
    improved. Thanks to Florian Forster. #627
  * python: Don't create empty "meta_data_t" objects. Thanks to Florian
    Forster. #716
  * python: Fix Py list length check in "cpy_build_meta()". Thanks to
    Yoga Ramalingam.
  * python: The "interval" member was fixed to export seconds as a
    double. Thanks to Justin Burnham.
  * RRDtool and RRDCacheD plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files
    has been fixed. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #661
  * snmp: Fix a memory leak. Thanks to Marc Fournier and Pierre-Yves
    Ritschard. #610, #804
  * statsd: Support for samplerates in timer metrics was added. Thanks
    to John Leach. #461
  * swap: Fix behavior under OpenVZ by making "cached" optional. Thanks
    to Florian Forster. #733
  * threshold: Population of the "time" field in notifications has been
    added. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
  * libvirt: Only gather stats for running domains. Thanks to Ruben
    Kerkhof.
  * lvm: An issue with Volume Groups (VGs) without Logical Volumes (LVs)
    has been fixed. Thanks to Jan Kundrát.
  * write_graphite: Escape characters not supported by Graphite. Thanks
    to Pierre-Yves Ritschard and Marc Fournier.
  * write_http: Make callback names context-dependent. Thanks to Marc
    Fournier. #821
  * write_redis: A formatting bug, which resulted in totally unusable
    numbers being transmitted to Redis, was fixed. Thanks to Marc
    Fournier.
  * write_riemann: Receive acknowledge message when using TCP. Thanks to
    John-John Tedro.


Best regards,
—octo
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