5.8.7

rsyslog 5.8.7 (v5-stable) released

This is a bug-fixing release. The most important patches resolve instabilities with RFC5424 header fields and information loss when non-wellformed messages are submitted to the system log socket.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-8-7-v5-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-7-v5-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,

Tim Eifler

Changelog for 5.8.7 (v5-stable)

Version 5.8.7  [V5-stable] 2012-01-17

  • bugfix: instabilities when using RFC5424 header fields
    Thanks to Kaiwang Chen for the patch
  • bugfix: imuxsock did truncate part of received message if it did not contain a proper date. The truncation occured because we removed that part of the messages that was expected to be the date.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295
  • bugfix: potential abort after reading invalid X.509 certificate
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=290
    Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch
  • bugfix: stats counter were not properly initialized on creation FQDN hostname for multihomed host was not always set to the correct name if multiple aliases existed. Thanks to Tomas Heinreich for the patch.
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