[collectd] Version 5.5.0 available.

[Florian Forster]

Hello everybody,

after a very long development cycle, I'm extremely happy to announce the
availability of version 5.5.0. This release is *packed* with new
features. So much so, that I'm only going to include a summary in this
email. The full list of changes is available in the wiki [0].

New plugins allow collectd to read metrics from Ceph and DRBD (both
distributed file systems), OpenLDAP and Apache Zookeeper. On the
hardware side, there are new plugins for reading barometers, SMART data
from hard drives and C-states (idle states) from Intel CPUs. From the
operating system we now get information on file handles and shared
memory.

Integration with other systems has also been improved, there are new
plugins to write collectd metrics to Apache Kafka, a distributed message
queue, Sensu, a popular monitoring solution, and OpenTSDB, a distributed
timeseries database.

Of course, many existing plugins have been extended, too. For example,
CPU usage can finally be reported as a percentage, rather than jiffies.
This was one of our most-requested features.


Download
--------

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

  Version 5.5.0:

  * https://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.5.0.tar.bz2
    SHA-256: 847684cf5c10de1dc34145078af3fcf6e0d168ba98c14f1343b1062a4b569e88

  * https://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.5.0.tar.gz
    SHA-256: 5f7cfad5b24ed4f8b113cfb270e0f9e5a9f7c3af10443cb507fd40174a6c9028


Thanks
------

Huge thanks to everyone who helped with this release! It contains
source code contributions from the following people:

  Abhinav Upadhyay, Adrian Miron, Alex Petrov, Alexandre Moutot,
  Alexey Remizov, Andre Ferraz, Andrés J. Díaz, Benjamin Gilbert, Bjørn Nordbø,
  Bruno Prémont, Chris Lundquist, Christian Eichelmann, Christophe Courtaut,
  Dallin Young, David Blundell, Ed Okerson, Eric Sandeen, Fabiano Pires,
  Fabien Wernli, Fabrice A. Marie, Florian Forster, Frank Cornelis,
  Guillem Anguera, Ingmar Runge, Jan Andres, Jan Kundrát, Jan Vitek,
  Jean Delvare, Jeremy Katz, Jim Radford, Jiri Tyr, John Ferlito, John Leach,
  John-John Tedro, Josh Yotty, KOMEDA Shinji, Kevin Bowling, Kieran Bingham,
  Kimo Rosenbaum, Landry Breuil, Manuel CISSÉ, Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada,
  Marc Falzon, Marc Fournier, Marek Becka, Mark Wong, Matt Cottingham,
  Matthias Bethke, Michael Hart, Michael Pilat, Michael Schenck,
  Michael Spiegle, Michal Humpula, Moshe Zada, Nicholas Humfrey, Nicolas Iooss,
  Olivier Bazoud, Patrick Browne, Patrick Mooney, Peter Wu,
  Pierre-Yves Ritschard, Rainer Müller, Remi Collet, Remi Ferrand,
  Robert Viduya, Ruben Kerkhof, Sebastian Harl, Sergey, Stan Sawa,
  Stephen O'Dor, Sven Trenkel, Thomas D, Tiago Carvalho, Tim Laszlo, Tim Smith,
  Tmtom, Tom Leaman, Tomas, Tomasz Torcz, Victor Berger, Victor Seva,
  Vincent Bernat, Vincent Brillault, Vladimir Smirnov, Wilfried Goesgens,
  William Tisäter, Wilson Felipe, Yoga Ramalingam, Yves Mettier,
  Zollner Robert, ciomaire, daryder, jazzmes, loginator17, toni-moreno, txaj


Best regards,
—octo

[0] <https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Version_5.5>
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