July 2015 Summaries

InfluxDB 0.9.2 has been released, bringing support for SSL, bug fixes, and groundwork for lifting clustering limitations. The release laid the foundation for future improvements, including compression and smoother write response times, with a planned release of 0.9.3 featuring clusters of arbitrary size and replication factors less than the number of servers. Testing against larger clusters can begin in earnest soon, although some key features such as replacing a downed server will be implemented in later releases. A new nightly build will provide support for larger clusters late next week, allowing users to start testing clustering capabilities.

The InfluxDB 0.9.1 release includes many bug fixes, some significant ones, which are highly recommended for users of version 0.9.0 due to improved stability and features. Notable additions include better support for the Graphite Carbon protocol, a new Administration Web UI, and a write ahead log (WAL) feature that addresses performance issues with heavy write loads. The InfluxDB release cycle is now established at every three weeks. Telegraf 0.1.2 has also been released, featuring bug fixes and minor tweaks, as well as a new plugin for memcached. Telegraf's future development plans include implementing plugins for various services and APIs, support for other output formats, and StatsD style aggregation. The community is encouraged to contribute to the codebase, which is smaller and more accessible than InfluxDB's codebase. New documentation has been pushed, with the InfluxDB and Telegraf docs being open source and in need of corrections or additions.