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rsyslog 8.31.0 (v8-stable) released

Today, we release rsyslog 8.31. This is probably one of the biggest releases in the past couple of years. While it also offers great new functionality, what really important about it is the focus on further improved software quality. For a more detailed description, please read Rainer’s blog post. Detailed information about the huge list of changes is available in the changelog.

http://blog.gerhards.net/2017/11/rsyslog-831-important-release.html

The packages have received some notable changes as well. First off, we were able to implement the Redis output module as a separate package on Ubuntu 14.04 and newer. Also there was a dependency change for the ommongo module, thus it is now only available on Ubuntu 16.04 or newer, but not on CentOS/RHEL anymore. Platform restrictions are unavoidable right now due to dependency availability.

ChangeLog:

rsyslog 8.30.0 (v8-stable) released

We have released rsyslog 8.30.0.

This release features a large number of changes. First we should mention the new build requirements for libfastjson 0.99.7 and the build recommendation for imjournal being libsystemd-journal >= 234.

Notable changes are that (JSON) variables are now handled case-insensitive by default, imjournal being able to switch to persistent journal in runtime and the complete refactoring of mmanon. Also, a lot of improvements have been added to the error reporting as well as many bugfixes.

For a complete list of changes, fixes and enhancements, please visit the ChangeLog.

The packages will follow when they are finished.

ChangeLog:

Changelog for 7.4.5 (v7-stable)

Version 7.4.5 [v7.4-stable] 2013-10-22

  • mmanon: removed the check for specific “terminator characters” after
    last octet. As it turned out, this didn’t work in practice as there
    was an enormous set of potential terminator chars — so removing
    them was the best thing to do. Note that this may change behaviour of
    existing installations. Yet, we still consider this an important
    bugfix, that should be applied to the stable branch.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477
    Thanks to Muri Cicanor for initiating the discussion
  • now requires libestr 0.1.8 as early versions had a nasty bug in
    string comparisons
  • omelasticsearch: add failed.httprequests stats counter
  • bugfix: invalid property filter was not properly disabled in ruleset
    Note that this bugfix introduces a very slight memory leak, which is
    cosmetic, as it just holds data until termination that is no longer
    needed. It is just the part of the config that was invalid. We will
    “fix” this “issue” in the devel version first, as the fix is a bit
    too intrusive to do without hard need in the stable version.
  • bugfix: segfault if re_extract() function was used and no match found
  • bugfix: potential misadressing on startup if property-filter was used
    This could happen if the property name was longer than 127 chars, a case
    that would not happen in practice.
  • bugfix: omelasticsearch: correct failed.http stats counter
  • bugfix: omelasticsearch: did not correctly initialize stats counters
  • bugfix: omelasticsearch: failed.es counter was only maintained in bulk mode
    This usually did not lead to any problems, because they are in static
    memory, which is initialized to zero by the OS when the plugin is
    loaded. But it may cause problems especially on systems that do not
    support atomic instructions – in this case the associated mutexes also
    did not get properly initialized.
  • bugfix: mmanon did not detect all IP addresses in rewrite mode
    The problem occured if two IPs were close to each other and the first one
    was shrunk.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485
    Thanks to micah-at-riseup.net for reporting this bug
  • bugfix: mmanon sometimes used invalid replacement char in simple mode
    depending on configuration sequence, the replacement character was set
    to ‘s’ instead of the correct value. Most importantly, it was set to
    ‘s’ if simple mode was selected and no replacement char set.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484
    Thanks to micah-at-riseup.net for reporting this bug
  • bugfix: memory leak in mmnormalize
  • bugfix: array-based ==/!= comparisions lead to invalid results
    This was a regression introduced in 7.3.5 bei the PRI optimizer
  • bugfix: omprog blocked signals to executed programs
    The made it impossible to send signals to programs executed via
    omprog.
    Thanks to Risto Vaarandi for the analysis and a patch.
  • bugfix: doc: imuxsock legacy param $SystemLogSocketParseTrusted was
    misspelled
    Thanks to David Lang for alerting us
  • bugfix: imfile “facility” input parameter improperly handled
    caused facility not to be set, and severity to be overwritten with
    the facility value.
    Thanks to forum user dmunny for reporting this bug.
  • bugfix: small memory leak in imfile when $ResetConfigVariables was used
    Thanks to Grégory Nuyttens for reporting this bug and providig a fix
  • bugfix: segfault on startup if TLS was used but no CA cert set
  • bugfix: segfault on startup if TCP TLS was used but no cert or key set
  • bugfix: some more build problems with newer json-c versions
    Thanks to Michael Biebl for mentioning the problem.
  • bugfix: build system: libgcrypt.h needed even if libgrcypt was disabled
    Thanks to Jonny Törnbom for reporting this problem

rsyslog 7.5.5 (v7-devel) released

This release offers some important bug fixes and exciting new features. Most importantly, imudp can now use multiple input threads for even higher UDP input throughput. And imfile now longer has a hardcoded limit on the number of files that can be monitored. You can now monitor as many files as you like. Support for setting default timezones has been added to imptcp and imudp, but is still in experimental state (but feel free to use it if it suits you!). More detailed information is available in the changelog.

ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-5-5-v7-devel/

Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-5-5-v7-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards, Florian Riedl

Changelog for 7.5.5 (v7-devel)

Version 7.5.5 [devel] 2013-10-16

  • imfile: permit to monitor an unlimited number of files
  • imptcp: add “defaultTZ” input parameter
  • imudp: support for multiple receiver threads added
  • imudp: add “dfltTZ” input config parameter
  • bugfix: memory leak in mmnormalize
  • bugfix: mmutf8fix did not properly handle invalid UTF-8 at END of message if the very last character sequence was too long, this was not detected
    Thanks to Risto Vaarandi for reporting this problem.
  • mmanon: removed the check for specific “terminator characters” after  last octet. As it turned out, this didn’t work in practice as there was an enormous set of potential terminator chars — so removing them was the best thing to do. Note that this may change behaviour of existing installations. Yet, we still consider this an important bugfix, that should be applied to the stable branch.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477
    Thanks to Muri Cicanor for initiating the discussion
  • now requires libestr 0.1.7 as early versions had a nasty bug in string comparisons
  • bugfix: mmanon did not detect all IP addresses in rewrite mode
    The problem occured if two IPs were close to each other and the first one was shrunk.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485
    Thanks to micah-at-riseup.net for reporting this bug
  • bugfix: mmanon sometimes used invalid replacement char in simple mode depending on configuration sequence, the replacement character was set to ‘s’ instead of the correct value. Most importantly, it was set to ‘s’ if simple mode was selected and no replacement char set.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484
    Thanks to micah-at-riseup.net for reporting this bug
  • bugfix: memory leak in mmnormalize
  • bugfix: array-based ==/!= comparisions lead to invalid results
    This was a regression introduced in 7.3.5 bei the PRI optimizer
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