Topic: Change Log

• continued working on modularization
  
• fixed a bug that caused rsyslogd to segfault on exit (and probably also on HUP), when there was an unsent message in a selector that required forwarding and the dns lookup failed for that selector (yes, it was pretty unlikely to happen;)) thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch
  
• fixed a memory leak in config file parsing and die() thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch
  
• rsyslogd now checks on startup if it is capable to performa any work at all. If it cant, it complains and terminates thanks to Michel Samia for providing the patch!
  
• fixed a small memory leak when HUPing syslogd. The allowed sender list now gets freed. thanks mildew to for the patch.
  
• changed the way error messages in early startup are logged. They now do no longer use the syslogd code directly but are rather send to stderr
  

• made the port part of the -r option optional. Needed for backward compatibility with sysklogd
  
• replaced system() calls with something more reasonable. Please note that this might break compatibility with some existing configuration files. We accept this in favor of the gained security.
  
• removed a memory leak that could occur if timegenerated was used in RFC 3164 format in templates
  
• did some preparation in msg.c for advanced multithreading - placed the hooks, but not yet any active code
  
• worked further on modularization
  
• added $ModLoad MySQL (dummy) config directive
  
• added DropTrailingLFOnReception config directive
  

• fixed a bug that caused make install to install rsyslogd and rklogd under the wrong names
  
• fixed bug that caused $AllowedSenders to handle IPv6 scopes incorrectly; also fixed but that could grabble $AllowedSender wildcards. Thanks to mildew@gmail.com for the patch
  
• minor code cleanup - thanks to Peter Vrabec for the patch
  
• fixed minimal memory leak on HUP (caused by templates) thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch
  
• fixed another memory leak on HUPing and on exiting rsyslogd again thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch
  
• code cleanup (removed compiler warnings)
  
• fixed portability bug in configure.ac - thanks to Bartosz Kuzma for the patch
  
• moved msg object into its own file set
  
• added the capability to continue trying to write log files when the file system is full. Functionality based on patch by Martin Schulze to sysklogd package
  

• added $RepeatedLineReduction config parameter
  
• added $EscapeControlCharactersOnReceive config parameter
  
• added $ControlCharacterEscapePrefix config parameter
  
• added $DirCreateMode config parameter
  
• added $CreateDirs config parameter
  
• added $DebugPrintTemplateList config parameter
  
• added $ResetConfigVariables config parameter
  
• added $FileOwner config parameter
  
• added $FileGroup config parameter
  
• added $DirOwner config parameter
  
• added $DirGroup config parameter
  
• added $FailOnChownFailure config parameter
  
• added regular expression support to the filter engine thanks to Michel Samia for providing the patch!
  
• enhanced $AllowedSender functionality. Credits to mildew@gmail.com for the patch doing that
  
  
  
  • added IPv6 support
    
  • allowed DNS hostnames
    
  • allowed DNS wildcard names
    
  
  
• added new option $DropMsgsWithMaliciousDnsPTRRecords
  
• added autoconf so that rfc3195d, rsyslogd and klogd are stored to /sbin
  
• added capability to auto-create directories with dynaFiles
  

• build system switched to autotools
  
• removed SYSV preprocessor macro use, replaced with autotools equivalents
  
• fixed a bug that caused rsyslogd to segfault when TCP listening was disabled and it terminated
  
• added new properties "syslogfacility-text" and "syslogseverity-text" thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch
  
• added the -x option to disable hostname dns reslution thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch
  
• begun to better modularize syslogd.c - this is an ongoing project; moved type definitions to a separate file
  
• removed some now-unused fields from struct filed
  
• move file size limit fields in struct field to the "right spot" (the file writing part of the union - f_un.f_file)
  
• subdirectories linux and solaris are no longer part of the distribution package. This is not because we cease support for them, but there are no longer any files in them after the move to autotools
  

• fixed a bug that caused a dynaFile selector to stall when there was an open error with one file
  
• improved template processing for dynaFiles; templates are now only looked up during initialization - speeds up processing
  
• optimized memory layout in struct filed when compiled with MySQL support
  
• fixed a bug that caused compilation without SYSLOG_INET to fail
  
• re-enabled the "last message repeated n times" feature. This feature was not taken care of while rsyslogd evolved from sysklogd and it was more or less defunct. Now it is fully functional again.
  
• added system properties: $NOW, $YEAR, $MONTH, $DAY, $HOUR, $MINUTE
  
• fixed a bug in iovAsString() that caused a memory leak under stress conditions (most probably memory shortage). This was unlikely to ever happen, but it doesn't hurt doing it right
  
• cosmetic: defined type "uchar", change all unsigned chars to uchar
  

• fixed a bug in the Debian sample startup script - it caused rsyslogd to listen to remote requests, which it shouldn't by default
  
• fixed a bug with the -o option - thanks to Jonas Eriksson for the patch
  

• added ability to dynamically generate file names based on templates and thus properties. This was a much-requested feature. It makes life easy when it e.g. comes to splitting files based on the sender address.
  
• added $umask and $FileCreateMode config file directives
  
• applied a patch from Bartosz Kuzma to compile cleanly under NetBSD
  
• checks for extra (unexpected) characters in system config file lines have been added
  
• added IPv6 documentation - was accidently missing from CVS
  
• begun to change char to unsigned char
  

** this release fixes all known nits with IPv6 **

• restored capability to do /etc/service lookup for "syslog" service when -r 0 was given
• documented IPv6 handling of syslog messages
• integrate patch from Bartosz Kuźma to make rsyslog compile under Solaris again (the patch replaced a strndup() call, which is not available under Solaris
• improved debug logging when waiting on select
• updated rsyslogd man page to cover new options (-46A)

• added Peter Vrabec's patch for IPv6 TCP
  
• prefixed all messages send to stderr in rsyslogd with "rsyslogd: