Changes

2.2.0 / 2019-04-11

[FEATURE] UDS: non-blocking implementation. See #81.
[FEATURE] Support configuration from standard environment variables. See #78.
[FEATURE] Configuration at client creation. See #82.
[IMPROVEMENT] UDS: change Mutex to RWMutex for fast already-connected path. See #84. Thanks @KJTsanaktsidis.
[IMPROVEMENT] Return error when using on nil client. See #65. Thanks @Aceeri.
[IMPROVEMENT] Reduce Client.format allocations. See #53. Thanks @vcabbage.
[BUGFIX] UDS: add lock to writer for concurrency safety. See #62.
[DOCUMENTATION] Document new options, non-blocking client, etc. See #85.
[TESTING] Adding go 1.10 and go 1.11 to CI. See #75. Thanks @thedevsaddam.

[IMPROVEMENT] Protect client methods from nil client. See #52, thanks @ods94065.

Version 2.0.0 contains breaking changes and beta features, please refer to the Notes section below for details.

[BREAKING] statsdWriter now implements io.Writer interface. See #46.
[BUGFIX] Flush buffer on close. See #47.
[BETA] Add support for global distributions. See #45.
[FEATURE] Add support for Unix Domain Sockets. See #37.
[FEATURE] Export eventAlertType and eventPriority. See #42, thanks @thomas91310.
[FEATURE] Export Flush method. See #40, thanks @colega.
[BUGFIX] Prevent panics when closing the udsWriter. See #43, thanks @jacek-adamek.
[IMPROVEMENT] Fix issues reported by Golint. See #39, thanks @tariq1890.
[IMPROVEMENT] Improve message building speed by using less fmt.Sprintfs. See #32, thanks @corsc.

[FEATURE] Export serviceCheckStatus allowing interfaces to statsd.Client. See #19 (Thanks @Jasrags)
[FEATURE] Client.sendMsg(). Check payload length for all messages. See #25 (Thanks @theckman)
[BUGFIX] Remove new lines from tags. See #21 (Thanks @sjung-stripe)
[BUGFIX] Do not panic on Client.Event when nil. See #28
[DOCUMENTATION] Update decr documentation to match implementation. See #30 (Thanks @kcollasarundell)

We hadn't been properly versioning this project. We will begin to do so with this 1.0.0 release. We had some contributions in the past and would like to thank the contributors @aviau, @sschepens, @jovanbrakus, @abtris, @tummychow, @gphat, @diasjorge, @victortrac, @seiffert and @w-vi, in no particular order, for their work.

Below, for reference, the latest improvements made in 07/2016 - 08/2016

[FEATURE] Implemented support for service checks. See #17 and #5. (Thanks @jovanbrakus and @diasjorge).
[FEATURE] Add Incr, Decr, Timing and more docs.. See #15. (Thanks @gphat)
[BUGFIX] Do not append to shared slice. See #16. (Thanks @tummychow)