[collectd] collectd-5.11.0 available

Thu Mar 19 16:02:52 CET 2020

Great news! First release of the year.

Thanks to the volunteers, contributors and release managers to make this happen!

Thanks,
Sunku Ranganath

-----Original Message-----
From: collectd <collectd-bounces at verplant.org> On Behalf Of Matthias Runge
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 3:42 AM
To: list at collectd.org
Subject: [collectd] collectd-5.11.0 available

Hello everybody,

we're delighted to announce the availability of our new feature release, collectd 5.11.0. The full list of new features and bug fixes and their authors are all mentioned in the ChangeLog below.

We would also like to thank all contributors to the community, especially highlighting the recently established Code of Coduct and also the persons stepping up to be contacts for any issues in the community.

https://github.com/collectd/collectd/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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

* https://collectd.org/files/collectd-5.11.0.tar.bz2
SHA256sum: 37b10a806e34aa8570c1cafa6006c604796fae13cc2e1b3e630d33dcba9e5db2

Thanks
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Thanks to everybody who contributed to this version. In particular:

Adrian Boczkowski, Alexander Meshcheryakov, Asaf Kahlon, Bart De Vos, Caden, Carlos Peón Costa, Chris Brown, Christian W. Zuckschwerdt, Dagobert Michelsen, Dheeraj Gupta, Edgar Fuß, Fabien Wernli, Florian Forster, Guillem Jover, Hari TG, Igor Peshansky, Javier Kohen, Jaroslaw Przybylowicz, Kamil Wiatrowski, Krzysztof Kepka, Krzysztof Matczak, Ling Huang, Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada, Märt Bakhoff, Man Singh, Marat Salimzianov, Marcin Możejko, Marco van Tol, Matthias Runge, Michael Kaufmann, Michael Poetters, Michal Kobyliński, Nelson, Nimrod Maclomhair, Pablo Llopis, Pavel Rochnyak, Pierre Lebleu, Radosław Jabłonski, Rafael Marinheiro, Reshma Pattan, Robert Dietrich, Ruben Kerkhof, Ryan McCabe, Takuro Ashie, themylogin, William Pursell, Yousong Zhou, Zebity Spring, Zoltan Szabo

ChangeLog
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2020-03-15, Version 5.11.0

* collectd: A Code of Conduct has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
  #3401
* text protocol: Support for meta_data in PUTVAL has been added. Thanks
  to Rafael Marinheiro, Dagobert Michelsen. #3381, #2726
* utils_cache: Internal API has changed - exposed meta_data_toc
  function. Thanks to Javier Kohen. #3339
* filter_chain: Auto load matches and targets if AutoLoadPlugin option
  is set. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada. #1034
* AMQP plugin: TLS support has been added. Thanks to Märt Bakhoff.
  #3391
* Battery plugin: Read from Linux sysfs charge files has been added.
  Thanks to Nimrod Maclomhair. #3190
* Buddyinfo plugin: New plugin for memory fragmentation info has been
  added. Thanks to Asaf Kahlon. #3303
* capabilities plugin: New plugin to read static platform data has been
  added. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski, Dagobert Michelsen. #3384, #3292
* DCPMM plugin: New plugin for Intel Optane DC Presistent Memory (DCPMM)
  has been added. Thanks to Hari TG. #3274
* DF plugin: LogOnce option has been added. Thanks to themylogin. #2910
* DPDK Telemetry plugin: New plugin to fetch DPDK metrics (with intent
  to replace dpdk_stat) has been added. Thanks to Reshma Pattan. #3273
* Disk plugin: A native (sysctl-based) implementation for NetBSD has
  been added. Thanks to Edgar Fuß, Dagobert Michelsen. #3379, #3334
* GPU_Nvidia‏‎ plugin: Configurable plugin instance by GPU name
  and/or GPU index has been added. Thanks to Robert Dietrich. #3264
* Intel_PMU plugin: Support for uncore multi pmu has been added. Thanks
  to Kamil Wiatrowski. #3388
* Ipstats plugin: New plugin to count incoming, outgoing, forwarded
  packets on FreeBSD has been added. Thanks to Marco van Tol. #3187
* Java plugin: Support boolean input has been added. Thanks to Caden.
  #3044
* Logparser plugin: New plugin for filtering and parsing log messages
  has been added. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski, Krzysztof Matczak, Marcin
  Możejko, Adrian Boczkowski, Radosław Jabłonski. #3045
* Network plugin: New metadata "network:ip_address" has been added.
  Thanks to Takuro Ashie. #3191
* NFS plugin: An implementation for NetBSD (using sysctl) has been
  added. Thanks to Edgar Fuß, Dagobert Michelsen. #3377, #3333
* NUT plugin: Support for the "output.realpower" value from the ups code
  has been added. Thanks to Michael Poetters. #2528
* Redfish plugin: New read plugin to collect out-of-band sensor data
  from Redfish endpoints has been added. Thanks to Marcin Możejko,
  Adrian Boczkowski, Michal Kobyliński, Krzysztof Kepka, Man Singh,
  Zoltan Szabo. #2926
* Slurm plugin: The new SLURM plugin gathers metrics from the SLURM
  workload manager has been added. Thanks to Pablo Llopis. #3037
* Tail_CSV plugin: FieldSeparator option has been added. Thanks to
  Dheeraj Gupta. #3394
* UBI plugin: The new "ubifs" plugin reports block state for flash
  memory devices with UBIFS filesystem has been added. Thanks to Pierre
  Lebleu. #3204
* Write_HTTP plugin: Ability to configure cURL statistics has been
  added. Thanks to Nelson. #3265
* Write_Influxdb_UDP plugin: New plugin to send values to InfluxDB using
  line protocol via udp has been added. Thanks to Carlos Peón Costa.
  #3162
* Zookeeper plugin: 'quorum' stat has been added. Thanks to Chris Brown.
  #2991
* collectd: Missing package in specfile has been fixed. Thanks to Fabien
  Wernli. #3399
* collectd: Factored out read_text_file_contents for reading text files
  and used it to fix a potential unterminated string in the thermal
  plugin. Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #3359
* collectd: Error/warning messages has been extended with more
  information. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3386
* collectd: Regression caused by #3217 has been fixed. Thanks to Pavel
  Rochnyak. #3349
* build: version-gen.sh has been cleaned up. Thanks to William Pursell.
  #2635
* build: Linking with Python 3.8 has been fixed. Thanks to Alexander
  Meshcheryakov. #3344
* build: Avoid $< (implied source) in non-inference rules / Building
  grpc with non-GNU make has been fixed. Thanks to Edgar Fuß, Dagobert
  Michelsen. #3376, #3330
* filter_chain: Constant for max plugin name length introduced in #1034
  has been fixed. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3385
* ignorelist: Coding style has been fixed. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen.
  #3397
* match_regex: Accept all data types of meta data. Thanks to Takuro
  Ashie. #3231
* perl unixsock: Made the module robust against socket errors and
  disconnects. Thanks to Guillem Jover. #3083
* tree-wide: Race condition when setting thread names has been fixed.
  Thanks to Michael Kaufmann. #2762
* types.db: ping_droprate range spec has been fixed. Thanks to Yousong
  Zhou. #3244
* utils/format_graphite: Comma sign has been added to the list of
  prohibited characters. Thanks to Marat Salimzianov. #2998
* Aggregation plugin: Unreachable clause where both tmp_plugin and
  tmp_plugin_instance are non-empty has been fixed. Thanks to Ling
  Huang. #3350
* AMQP1 plugin: Leaks on error paths has been fixed. Thanks to Ryan
  McCabe. #3352
* Apache plugin: BusyWorkers/IdleWorkers update has been fixed. Thanks
  to Christian W. Zuckschwerdt. #3131
* CPU plugin, Memory plugin, Swap plugin, UUID plugin: Contain use of
  sysctl / sysctrlbyname to BSD variants, as deprecated on Linux. Thanks
  to Zebity Spring. #3342
* Exec plugin: Select has been replaced with poll to allow more then
  1024 open file descriptors. Thanks to Kamil Wiatrowski. #3363
* GPU_Nvidia plugin: Build issues has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben
  Kerkhof. #3393
* Interface plugin: Reorder so that Linux-specific code is actually
  executed. Thanks to Dagobert Michelsen. #3378
* NFS plugin: Condition on existence of libkstat has been fixed. Thanks
  to Dagobert Michelsen. #3382
* Network plugin: Memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ryan McCabe.
  #3352
* Processes plugin: Number of running processes has been fixed. Thanks
  to Bart De Vos. #3243
* Write_Riemann plugin: Memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Fabien
  Wernli. #3351
* Write_Stackdriver plugin: NaN value handing with gauge metrics has
  been fixed. Thanks to Jaroslaw Przybylowicz. #3226