ChangeLog for 5.5.2 (devel)

Version 5.5.2 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2010-02-05

• applied patches that make rsyslog compile under Apple OS X.
  Thanks to trey for providing these.

• replaced data type “bool” by “sbool” because this created some portability issues.
• added $Escape8BitCharactersOnReceive directive
  Thanks to David Lang for suggesting it.

• worked around an issue where omfile failed to compile on32 bit platforms under some circumstances (this smells like a gcc problem, but a simple solution was available). Thanks to Kenneth Marshall for some advice.
• extended testbench
• bugfix: queues in direct mode could case a segfault, especially if an action failed for action queues. The issue was an invalid increment of a stack-based pointer which lead to destruction of the stack frame and thus a segfault on function return.
  Thanks to Michael Biebl for alerting us on this problem.

• bugfix: hostname accidently set to IP address for some message sources, for example imudp. Thanks to Anton for reporting this bug. [imported v4]
• bugfix: ompgsql had problems with transaction support, what actually rendered it unsuable. Thanks to forum user “horhe” for alerting me on this bug and helping to debug/fix it! [imported from 5.3.6]
• bugfix: $CreateDirs variable not properly initialized, default thus was random (but most often “on”) [imported from v3]