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 ## News
 
+`Jul 9th, 2019` - **[Netdata v1.16.0 released!](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases)**
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+Release v1.16.0 contains 40 bug fixes, 31 improvements and 20 documentation updates
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+**Binary distributions.** To improve the security, speed and reliability of new netdata installations, we are delivering our own, industry standard installation method, with binary package distributions. The RPM binaries for the most common OSs are already available on packagecloud and we’ll have the DEB ones available very soon. All distributions are considered in Beta and, as always, we depend on our amazing community for feedback on improvements.
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+ - Our stable distributions are at [netdata/netdata @ packagecloud.io](https://packagecloud.io/netdata/netdata)
+ - The nightly builds are at [netdata/netdata-edge @ packagecloud.io](https://packagecloud.io/netdata/netdata-edge)
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+**Netdata now supports SSL encryption!** You can secure the communication to the [web server](https://docs.netdata.cloud/web/server/#enabling-tls-support), the [streaming connections from slaves to the master](https://docs.netdata.cloud/streaming/#securing-the-communication) and the connection to an [openTSDB backend](https://docs.netdata.cloud/backends/opentsdb/#https). 
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+**This version also brings two long-awaited features to netdata’s health monitoring:**
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+ - The [health management API](https://docs.netdata.cloud/web/api/health/#health-management-api) introduced in v1.12 allowed you to easily disable alarms and/or notifications while netdata was running. However, those changes were not persisted across netdata restarts. Since part of routine maintenance activities may involve completely restarting a monitoring node, netdata now saves these configurations to disk, every time you issue a command to change the silencer settings. The new [LIST command](https://docs.netdata.cloud/web/api/health/#list-silencers) of the API allows you to view at any time which alarms are currently disabled or silenced.
+ - A way for netdata to [repeatedly send alarm notifications](https://docs.netdata.cloud/health/#alarm-line-repeat) for some, or all active alarms, at a frequency of your choosing. As a result, you will no longer have to worry about missing a notification, forgetting about a raised alarm. The default is still to only send a single notification, so that existing users are not surprised by a different behavior.  
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+As always, we’ve introduced new collectors, 5 of them this time:
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+ - Of special interest to people with Windows servers in their infrastructure is the [WMI collector](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/wmi/), though we are fully aware that we need to continue our efforts to do a proper port to Windows. 
+ - The new `perf` plugin collects system-wide CPU performance statistics from Performance Monitoring Units (PMU) using the `perf_event_open()` system call. You can read a wonderful article on why this is useful [here](http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html).
+ - The other three are collectors to monitor [Dnsmasq DHCP leases](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/dnsmasq_dhcp/), [Riak KV servers](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/python.d.plugin/riakkv/) and [Pihole instances](https://docs.netdata.cloud/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/pihole/). 
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+Finally, the DB Engine introduced in v1.15.0 now uses much less memory and is more robust than before. 
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 `May 21st, 2019` - **[Netdata v1.15.0 released!](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases)**
 
 Release v1.15.0 contains 11 bug fixes and 30 improvements.