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7.4.1

rsyslog 7.4.1 (v7-stable) released

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , , ,

This is a maintenance release, consisting primarily of bug fixes. Note that imjournal was extended to support rate-limiting, as this is needed as a safeguard for problems in systemd journal which in turn caused grief to rsyslog. See Rainer’s blog posting for more details:

http://blog.gerhards.net/2013/06/systemd-journal-causes-loop-in-imjournal.html

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-4-1-v7-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-4-1-v7-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 7.4.1 (v7-stable)

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , , , , ,

Version 7.4.1  [v7.4-stable] 2013-06-17

  • imjournal: add ratelimiting capability
    The original imjournal code did not support ratelimiting at all. We now have our own ratelimiter. This can mitigate against journal database corruption, when the journal re-sends old data. This is a current bug in systemd journal, but we won’t outrule this to happen in the future again. So it is better to have a safeguard in place. By default, we permit 20,000 messages witin 10 minutes. This may be a bit restrictive, but given the risk potential it seems reasonable.
    Users requiring larger traffic flows can always adjust the value.
  • bugfix: potential loop in rate limiting
    if the message that tells about rate-limiting gets rate-limited itself, it will potentially create and endless loop
  • bugfix: potential segfault in imjournal if journal DB is corrupted
  • bugfix: prevent a segfault in imjournal if state file is not defined
  • bugfix imzmq3: potential segfault on startup
    if no problem happend at startup, everything went fine
    Thanks to Hongfei Cheng and Brian Knox for the patch
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