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'''Version 5.3''' has been released on ''Tuesday, April 9<sup>th</sup> 2013''. The newest release is ''5.3.1'' which as been released on ''Saturday, July 13, 2013''. This version is currently supported.

== Changes ==

=== Release 5.3.0 ===

Released on ''Tuesday, April 9<sup>th</sup> 2013''.

* ''collectd:'' The <code>Include</code> statements can now be limited to include only matching files in a directory. Thanks to [[User:Tokkee|Sebastian Harl]] for his patch.
* ''collectd:'' Dispatches / writes are now handled by a thread pool. This improves reliability and throughput for instances configured to act as a &quot;server&quot;. Thanks to [[User:Tokkee|Sebastian Harl]] and ''Dan Fandrich'' for reviewing this change and fixing bugs.
* {{Plugin|Aggregation}}: Selection of value lists is now possible using regular expressions. Parts of the identifier of the resulting metric can now be set via the configuration file.
* {{Plugin|APC UPS}}: The <code>ReportSeconds</code> option has been implemented.
* curl* plugins: Support for POST requests and custom request headers has been added. Thanks to ''Dan Fandrich'' for his patch.
* {{Plugin|cURL-XML}}: Support for XML namespaces has been added. Thanks to ''Dan Fandrich'' for his patch.
* {{Plugin|DBI}}: Support for numeric options has been added. The <code>Host</code> option has been added. Thanks to ''Daniel Hilst'' for his patch.
* {{Plugin|Disk}}: Support for systems with &gt;256 has been fixed. Thanks to ''Greg Mason'' for his patch.
* {{Plugin|libvirt}}: Support for memory allocation has been added. Thanks to ''Johan Wirén'' for his patch.
* {{Plugin|NetApp}}: Support for <code>SnapVault</code>, <code>VFiler</code> and deduplication / compression and quota metrics. Thanks to [[User:Tokkee|Sebastian Harl]] for his patches and ''teamix GmbH'' for sponsoring this work.
* {{Plugin|PostgreSQL}}: The reconnection logic has been improved. Thanks to [[User:Tokkee|Sebastian Harl]] for his patches.
* [[Plugin:RRDtool|RRDtool]], [[Plugin:RRDCacheD|RRDCacheD]] plugins: The <code>CreateFilesAsync</code> option has been implemented. When enabled, new RRD files will be created asynchronously, which improved throughput of server instances. Many thanks to Yves Mettier for all his input and code.
* {{Plugin|Tail CSV}}: This new plugins allows to read metrics from CSV files, such as Snort's statistics file. Thanks to ''Kris Nielander'' for his patch.
* {{Plugin|Write MongoDB}}: Authentication options have been added.
* {{Plugin|Write Riemann}}: This new plugin allows sending metrics to Riemann, a stream processing and alerting tool. Big thanks to ''Pierre-Yves Ritschard'' for his work.

=== Release 5.3.1 ===

Released on ''Saturday, July 13<sup>th</sup> 2013''.

* ''Documentation:'' Various fixes.
* ''Configuration:'' Fix error handling: Errors in included files were ignored, causing configuration mistakes to go unnoticed.
* {{Plugin|DNS}}: Don't abort when PCAP returns an error.
* {{Plugin|Modbus}}: The reconnection strategy was improved, fixing a segfault in the libmodbud library. Thanks to ''Stefan Nickl'' and ''Fabien Wernli'' for their patches.
* {{Plugin|MySQL}}: The notification about a newly running MySQL slave thread has been fixed. Thanks to ''Joaquín Cuenca Abela'' for the patch.
* {{Plugin|SNMP}}: A build issue has been fixed (C99 mixed declaration). The end-of-tree check has been improved by ''Pierre-Yves Ritschard''.
* {{Plugin|Threshold}}: Handling of the <code>Interesting</code> configuration option has been fixed. Thanks to ''Björn'' for the patch.
* {{Plugin|Write Riemann}}: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to ''Dave Cottlehuber'' for reporting it.

=== Release 5.3.2 ===

'''Work in progress'''

* ''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'' for their patches.
* ''collectd:'' A use-after-free has been fixed in the <code>parse_value()</code> function. Thanks to ''Matthias Urlichs'' for his work.
* ''collectd:'' Fix carriage return sign in types_list Thanks to ''Marc Fournier'' and ''@NsLib'' for their work.
* ''collectd:'' Fix programming error in {{GitFile|src/configfile.c}} Thanks to ''Wilfried Goesgens'' for his work.
* ''collectd:'' An off-by-one error has been fixed in the <code>strstripnewline()</code> function. Patch by [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]].
* ''collectd:'' Use the complain mechanism to report filter chain write failures. Thanks to ''Sebastian Harl'' for his work.
* cURL and [[Plugin:memcachec|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. Fixed by [[User:Octo|Florian Forster]]. {{Issue|663}}
* [[Plugin:RRDtool|RRDtool]] and [[Plugin:RRDCacheD|RRDCacheD]] plugins: A memory leak when creating RRD files has been fixed. Thanks to ''Yves Mettier'' for his work.

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