[pcp-announce] Performance Co-Pilot 3.10.2 release

[Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

The pcp-3.10.2 release has been tagged and unleashed.

This release features several new PMDAs, improvements to the papi and
linux PMDAs, pcp2graphite, pmdaroot, pmloextract robustness,
infrastructure for supporting containers, PMAPI extensions,
Solaris build improvements, and many bug fixes.

Thanks to Nathan for helping me through my first release!

 [http://www.pcp.io  ]


pcp-3.10.2 (23 January 2015)
    - PMAPI extension: pmParseUnitsStr. Includes python binding
    - libpcp/pmcd: protocol-level support for containers
    - libpcp_pmda - add pmdaInterfaceMoved() function
    - pmdalinux: improve help text for network metrics
    - pmdalinux: remove support for devfs device names - replaced by udev
    - pmdalinux: rework hinv.map.scsi for longer scsi device names and 
indom
    - pmdalinux: switch to running as a daemon, as root
      persistence
    - activeMQ: new pmda
    - CIFS: new pmda (Common Internet File System)
    - pmda unbound: a new PMDA for the Unbound DNS resolver
    - pmdapapi: add configure conditional to test for
      PAPI_component_info_t->disabled
    - pmdapapi: add papi.available.version to output current PAPI 
version being
      used
    - pmdapapi: other new metrics
    - pmdapapi: drop root requirement for less sensitive papi.available 
metrics
    - pmdapapi: use dynamic metric description
    - dbpmda: extend string syntax to include both " and ' delimiters
    - rc_pmcd: execute _pmda_setup in the background
    - Solaris build improvements:
      - Support for Solaris symbol versioning
      - use a libcpp exports comment style that works for both Linux 
and Solaris
    - pmwebd: buildability fixes for illumos-based distros
    - pmda root: a privileged pmcd co-process
      Initial implementation of "pmdaroot", a helper co-process
      for pmcd that runs with elevated privileges and is able to
      (well, will be able to soon) offer services to pmcd and to
      other PMDAs where root access is required
    - pmdaroot/libpcp_pmda: interfaces for changing namespaces
    - pmlogextract robustness improvements
    - add pcp2graphite
    - fix security PR1101: unprivileged access to linux proc.* metrics 
on modern
      kernel
    - Fedora 1180109: pmda cleanup was killing unrelated python and perl
      processes


Enjoy!

--
Dave

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