[collectd] Version 5.8.1 has been released

[Florian Forster]

Hi everybody,

I've built and uploaded collectd 5.8.1 which fixes a number of bugs; the change
log is attached below. Thanks to everyone contributing to this release!

Best regards,
—octo


Download
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  * https://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.8.1.tar.bz2
    SHA-256: e796fda27ce06377f491ad91aa286962a68c2b54076aa77a29673d53204453da


Contributors
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  * Aleksei Zakharov
  * Dagobert Michelsen
  * Daniel Vrátil
  * Dylan Stephano-Shachter
  * Florian Forster
  * Jan-Philipp Litza
  * Kamil Wiatrowski
  * Marc Fournier
  * Mariusz Bialonczyk
  * Mariusz Gronczewski
  * Mariusz Szafranski
  * Maryam Tahhan
  * Miroslav Lichvar
  * Pavel Rochnyak
  * Ruben Kerkhof
  * sarah
  * smallem
  * Toshiaki Takahashi


ChangeLog
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2018-10-22, Version 5.8.1
  * collectd: Fix "BaseDir" option. Thanks to Mariusz Białończyk and
    Pavel Rochnyak. #2857
  * collectd: improve error handling, check return values. Thanks to
    Florian Forster.
  * Build System: use "kstat.h", when available. Thanks to Dagobert
    Michelsen and Pavel Rochnyak. #2784
  * Build System: Fix distcheck on MacOS. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
  * Build System: add missing include of ""collectd.h"" to fix builds on
    Solaris. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak.
  * Build System: add endianess checks for AIX, fix GCC issue on Mac
    byteorder, fix byteorder on Solaris, add fallback for endianess
    conversion. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen (multiple cherry picks from
    master).
  * Build System: Out-of-tree builds have been fixed. Thanks to Florian
    Forster. #2602
  * Configuration: Error handling in the config parsing code has been
    improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
  * Documentation: Fix typo in collectd.conf(5). Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak.
    #2760
  * Documentation: update note on dpdkstat. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan. #2613
  * Various plugins: Errors found by the static code analysis tool
    Coverity were fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2559, #2560, #2561,
    #2562, #2563, #2565, #2568, #2575, #2579, #2580, #2588, #2589
  * Ceph plugin: A segfault has been fixed. Thanks to Aleksei Zakharov and
    Matthias Runge. #2572
  * DF plugin: fix memory leak in error case. Thanks to Takahashi tsc.
  * Exec plugin: check return value of "plugin_thread_create()". Thanks to
    Florian Forster.
  * Exec plugin: Handling of large groups has been fixed. Thanks to
    Sridhar Mallem. #2696
  * Exec plugin: Incorrect use of *putenv(3)* has been fixed. Thanks to
    Daniel Vrátil.
  * Exec plugin: A deadlock related to setting environment variables after
    *fork()* has been fixed. Thanks to Daniel Vrátil.
  * Intel PMU plugin: add core groups feature. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski.
    #2681
  * Intel PMU plugin: fix compatibility issue with collectd 5.8. Thanks to
    Kamil Wiatrowski.
  * Intel PMU plugin: fix possible "NULL" pointer dereference. Thanks to
    Kamil Wiatrowski. #2676
  * IPMI plugin: A segfault caused by a wrong data type has been fixed.
    Thanks to Mariusz Szafrański. #2742
  * IPMI plugin: The sensor configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to
    Pavel Rochnyak. #2629
  * memcached plugin: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
    Rochnyak. #2612
  * NFS plugin: Support for NFSv4 has been fixed. Thanks to Jan-Philipp
    Litza. #2076
  * NTPd plugin: A memory leak in the error handling path has been fixed.
    Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2942
  * OVS Stats plugin: A deadlock situation has been fixed. Thanks to
    Volodymyr Mytnyk. #2590
  * OVS Stats plugin: Fix reconnect after thread terminated. Thanks to
    Volodymyr Mytnyk and Maram Tahhan. #2574
  * Perl plugin: A compilation failure has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
    Rochnyak. #2732
  * Perl plugin: Fix exporting notification meta data. Thanks to Florian
    Forster.
  * RRDtool plugin: Handling of very large "GAUGE" metrics has been fixed.
    Thanks to Miroslav Lichvar. #2566
  * Tail plugin: Several regressions have been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
    Rochnyak. #2535, #2587, #2611
  * turbostat plugin: A potential segfault due to an incorrect *free()*
    has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2948
  * UUID plugin: Fix hostname setting. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2723
  * virt plugin: A segfault during error handling has been fixed. Thanks
    to Ruben Kerkhof. {{Issue|2919]}
  * Write Kafka plugin: A build failure due to a deprecated API call has
    been fixed. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2607, #2628, #2640
  * Write Prometheus plugin: Fix "MHD_USE_INTERNAL_POLLING_THREAD" flag in
    newer libmicrohttpd. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2849
  * Write Prometheus plugin: set "SO_REUSEADDRESS" on listening socket.
    Thanks to Pavel Rochnyak. #2570, #2673
-- 
Florian octo Forster
Hacker in training
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http://octo.it/
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