Merge pull request #1436 from influxdata/telegraf-1153

1.15.3 release notes and 1.16 draft (commented out)

content/telegraf/v1.15/about_the_project/release-notes-changelog.md

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+<!--
+## v1.16 [2020-09-11]
+
+### Features
+- agent Send metrics in FIFO order
+- inputs.modbus extend support of fixed point values on input
+- inputs.mongodb Added new metric "pages written from cache"
+- inputs.sqlserver added new counter - Lock Timeouts (timeout > 0)/sec
+- `inputs.clickhouse` Add additional metrics to clickhouse input plugin
+- `inputs.http_listener_v2`: Make http header tags case insensitive
+
+### Bug fixes
+- `inputs.tail`: Close file to ensure it has been flushed.
+- `build`: Fix `darwin` package build flags.
+- `shim`: Fix bug with loading plugins with no config.
+- `agent`: Fix issue with `execd restart_delay` being ignored.
+- `Outputs.opentsdb now skips NaN and Inf JSON values
+
+New Input Plugins
+proxmox - Contributed by @effitient
+opcua - Contributed by @influxdata
+New Output Plugins
+dynatrace - Contributed by @thschue
+sumologic - Contributed by @pmalek-sumo
+New External Plugins
+See EXTERNAL_PLUGINS.md for a full list of external plugins
+
+awsalarms - Simple plugin to gather/monitor alarms generated in AWS.
+youtube-telegraf-plugin - Gather view and subscriber stats from your youtube videos
+!-->
+
+## v.1.15.3 [2020-09-11]
+
+### Features
+- `processors.starlark`:
+  - Improve the quality of docs by executing them as tests.
+  - Add pivot example.
+- `outputs.application_insights`: Added ability to set endpoint url.
+- `inputs.sqlserver`: Added new counter - Lock Timeouts (timeout > 0)/sec.
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+- `agent`: Fix minor error message race condition.
+- `build`: Update dockerfiles to Go 1.14.
+- `shim`:
+  - Fix bug in logger affecting `AddError`.
+  - Fix issue with `config.Duration`.
+- `inputs.eventhub_consumer`: Fix string to int conversion.
+- `inputs.http_listener_v2`: Make http header tags case-insensitive.
+- `inputs.modbus`: Extend support of fixed point values.
+- `inputs.ping`: Fix issue for FreeBSD's ping6.
+- `inputs.vsphere`: Fixed missing cluster name.
+- `outputs.opentsdb` Fix JSON handling of values `NaN` and `Inf`.
+
+## v1.15.2 [2020-07-31]
+
+### Bug Fixes
+- Fix RPM `/var/log/telegraf` permissions.
+- Fix tail following on EOF.
+
 ## v1.15.1 [2020-07-22]
 
 ### Bug fixes