netdata v1.17.1 release notes (2019-09-12)

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netdata v1.17.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2019-09-12 // over 4 years ago

Netdata v1.17.1

📚 Release v1.17.1 contains 2 bug fixes, 6 improvements, and 2 documentation updates.

At a glance

🚀 The main reason for the patch release is an essential fix to the repeating alarm notifications we introduced in v1.17.0. If you enabled repeating notifications, Netdata would not then send CLEAR notifications for the selected alarms.

🚀 The release also includes a significant improvement to Netdata's auto-detection capabilities, especially after a system restart. Netdata now remembers which python.d plugin jobs were successfully collecting data the last time it was running, and retries to run those jobs for 5 minutes before giving up. As a result, you no longer have to worry if your system starts Netdata before the monitored services have had a chance to start properly. We will complete the same improvement for go.d plugins in v1.18.0.

📦 We also made some improvements to our binary packages and added a neat sample custom dashboard that can show charts from multiple Netdata agents.

Acknowledgements

Our thanks go to:
- tnyeanderson for Dash.html, the custom dashboard that can show charts from multiple hosts.
- qingkunl for improving the charts auto-scaling feature with nanosec and num units.
- 📚 Fohdeesha for documentation improvements
- Saruspete for improving debugging capabilities with tags for threads and his significant involvement in many other issues
👌 Improvements

📦 Binary packages
- 🚀 netdata/packaging: Trigger stable package generation upon release process #6766 (paulkatsoulakis)
- netdata/packaging: Fix ubuntu/xenial runtime dependencies #6825 (paulkatsoulakis)
- 🚚 netdata/packaging: Remove fedora/28, which is no longer available #6808 (paulkatsoulakis)
- netdata/packaging: Override control file for debian/buster #6777 (paulkatsoulakis)
GUI
- Expand dashboard auto-scaling and convertible units. Added two more units that allow auto-scaling and conversion: nanoseconds and num. #5920 (qingkunl)
Collector improvements
- 👷 Auto-detect previously running python.d jobs and retry for 5 minutes #6661 (ilyam8)
📚 Documentation
- 🛠 Fix pfsense instructions and links #6768 (Fohdeesha)
- ➕ Add high level explanation of dashboard contents #6648 (joelhans)
Other
- ⚡️ Update cache hashes for js and css #6756 (jacekkolasa)
- Provide a tag to identify the thread in the error messages. #6745 (Saruspete)
- ➕ Add sample multi-server dashboard dash.html #6603 (tnyeanderson)
- Replace hard-coded HTTP response codes #6595 (thiagoftsm)
🐛 Bug fixes
- 🛠 Fix clear notifications for repeating alarms #6638 (thiagoftsm)
- 🔧 Stop configure.ac from linking against dbengine and https libraries when dbengine or https are disabled #6658 (mfundul)