Build system: An option to to avoid building the DF plugin against XFS has been added. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1878
Build system: Autoconf ≥ 2.60, a C99-capable compiler and pkg-config are now required. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
Build system: Building with -Werror is now optional. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #1222
Build system: Many compilation issues on non-Linux platforms have been fixed, leading to wider plugin support. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof, Dagobert Michelsen, Havard Eidnes and Robert Viduya.
Build system: The configuration summary now also ends up in config.log. Thanks to Sebastian Harl.
collectd: All command-line options now override global options from the config file. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #366
collectd: A number of unit tests for commonly used functions have been added. Thanks to Florian Forster.
collectd: Plugins start up and read timeouts are now logged. Thanks to Marc Fournier. #1293, #1254
collectd: Support for a timeout has been added to FLUSH callbacks. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada.
collectd: The -T command line switch now reports more errors. Thanks to Corey Kosak. #1642
collectd: The max>DATA_MAX_NAME_LEN) has been doubled and is now configurable at build time. Thanks to Amy Lin, Florian Forster and Radu Brumariu. #1120