Version 5.8

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Version 5.8 has not yet been released and is work in progress.

Changes

Release 5.8.0

WiP; changes up to 0b852c1a4283a6e7a1217ca2f0b94ff9f58ddb54

• Build system: Support for libtool 1 has been dropped. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1898
• Build system: The build system has been switched to non-recursive make. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2085
• DPDKStat plugin: The plugin has been refactored to make DPDK related utility functions reusable. Thanks to Krzysztof Matczak. #2130
• Processes and TCPConns plugins: The OpenBSD implementation has been changed to use kvm_openfiles with KVM_NO_FILES. Thanks to Jeremie Courreges-Anglas. #2061
• Intel RDT plugin: Support for collectd's logging infrastructure has been added. PQoS monitoring groups are being reset on start-up to fix potential previous unclean shutdowns. Thanks to RomanX Korynkevych. #2089.
• IPMI plugin: Support for System Event Log (SEL) has been added. Thanks to RomanX Korynkevych. #2091
• IPMI plugin: Support for remote IPMI controllers has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #2024
• mcelog plugin: This new plugin subscribes to Machine Check Exceptions (MCE) and dispatches notifications. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Volodymyr Mytnyk, Taras Chornyi and Krzysztof Matczak. #2003
• Netlink plugin: The dropped packets metric has been added. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2053
• ovs events plugin: This new plugin reports link state changes from Open vSwitch (OVS). Thanks to Volodymyr Mytnyk. #1971
• SNMP Agent plugin: This new plugin implements an SNMP AgentX subagent that receives and handles queries from SNMP master agent and returns configured metrics. Thanks to RomanX Korynkevych. #2105
• UUID plugin: Support for libhal has been removed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2080
• virt plugin: The plugin has been updated to use virConnectListAllDomains(). Thanks to Denis Silakov. #2051
• virt plugin: Support for domain tags has been added. Thanks to Francesco Romani. #2048
• virt plugin: Connection handling has been improved. Thanks to Francesco Romani. #2100, #2101
• Write Graphite plugin: Additional tests have been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
• Write Prometheus plugin: Label values are now properly escaped. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2035
• Write TSDB plugin: The options ResolveInterval and ResolveJitter have been added to control DNS lookup behavior. This prevents DNS flooding in case TSDB is not available. Thanks to Yves Mettier. #2059
• ZFS ARC plugin: Header lines are now ignored in the Linux implementation. Thanks to YmrDtnJu. #2097