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rsyslog 5.8.7 (v5-stable) released

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

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

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rsyslog 5.8.7 (v5-stable)

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Download file name: rsyslog 5.8.7 (stable)

rsyslog 5.8.7 (stable)

md5sum: d806a91de534d6e33d7d1c1138cfdd37

Author: Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards@adiscon.com)
Version: 5.8.7 File size: 2.383 MB

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Changelog for 5.8.7 (v5-stable)

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

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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rsyslog 6.2.0 (v6-stable) released

Monday, January 9th, 2012

This is the initial stable release of rsyslog v6. It is basically the last beta version plus some more fixes. This version provides functional and performance enhancements, for example the Hadoop (HDFS) support has been considerably speeded up by supporting batched insert mode. Also, TCP transmission overhead for TLS has been dramatically improved. TCP now also supports input worker thread pools. Most importantly, rsyslog now supports log normalization via liblognorm rule bases. This permits very high performance normalization of semantically equal messages from different devices (and thus in different syntaxes).

Note that config scoping, available in the beta versions, is NOT supported by v6-stable. This was decided because it would have been functionality equivalent to the new config language upcoming in v6.3 (already available as part of the devel version). As scoping was not available in any earlier versions, introducing it in v6.2 would have added, in the long term, just another method of doing some identicaly thing via the ugly old config language. This would have lead to user confusion and more complex than necessary code. If you are interested in the cleaner config language, we strongly encourage you to have a look at rsyslog 6.3.

With the arrival of the stable v6 version, version 4 will be retired and is no longer officially supported (but support is provided under maintenance contracts, of course).

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-6-2-0-v6-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-2-0-v6-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

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Changelog for 6.2.0 (v6-stable)

Monday, January 9th, 2012

ChangeLog (from 6.1.12 to 6.2.0):

bugfix (kind of): removed numerical part from pri-text see v6 compatibility document for reasons
bugfix: race condition when extracting program name, APPNAME, structured data and PROCID (RFC5424 fields) could lead to invalid characters e.g. in dynamic file names or during forwarding (general malfunction of these fields in templates, mostly under heavy load)
bugfix: imuxsock did no longer ignore message-provided timestamp, if so configured (the *default*). Lead to no longer sub-second timestamps.
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281
bugfix: omfile returns fatal error code for things that go really wrong previously, RS_RET_RESUME was returned, which lead to a loop inside the rule engine as omfile could not really recover.
bugfix: rsyslogd -v always said 64 atomics were not present
thanks to mono_matsuko for the patch
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
$Begin, $End, $StrictScoping directives have been removed as v6.4 will provide the same functionality in a far better way. So we do not want to clutter the code.

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rsyslog 5.8.6 (v5-stable)

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Download file name: rsyslog 5.8.6 (stable)

rsyslog 5.8.6 (stable)

md5sum: c46db0496066b82faf735bd4222208d7

Author: Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards@adiscon.com)
Version: 5.8.6 File size: 2.373 MB

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rsyslog 5.8.6 (v5-stable) released

Friday, October 21st, 2011

This is a maintenance release offering bug fixes. For example for a small bug in property-based filter and a fix for $ActionExecOnlyOnce and more .For more detailed information, please read the changelog.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-8-6-v5-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-6-v5-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,

Tim Eifler

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Changelog for 5.8.6 (v5-stable)

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Version 5.8.6 [V5-stable] 2011-10-21

bugfix: missing whitespace after property-based filter was not detected
bugfix: $OMFileFlushInterval period was doubled – now using correct value
bugfix: ActionQueue could malfunction due to index error
Thanks to Vlad Grigorescu for the patch
bugfix: $ActionExecOnlyOnce interval did not work properly
Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch
bugfix: race condition when extracting program name, APPNAME, structured data and PROCID (RFC5424 fields) could lead to invalid characters e.g. in dynamic file names or during forwarding (general malfunction of these fields in templates, mostly under heavy load)
bugfix: imuxsock did no longer ignore message-provided timestamp, if so configured (the *default*). Lead to no longer sub-second timestamps.
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281
bugfix: omfile returns fatal error code for things that go really wrong previously, RS_RET_RESUME was returned, which lead to a loop inside the rule engine as omfile could not really recover.
bugfix: imfile did invalid system call under some circumstances when a file that was to be monitored did not exist BUT the state file actually existed. Mostly a cosmetic issue. Root cause was incomplete error checking in stream.c; so patch may affect other code areas.
bugfix: rsyslogd -v always said 64 atomics were not present
Thanks to mono_matsuko for the patch

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rsyslog 4.8.0 (v4-stable) released

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

There are no changes compared to 4.7.5, just a re-release with the new version number as new v4-stable. The most important new feature (for the v4-stable branch!) is Solaris support.

Note: major new development to v4 is concluded and will only be done for custom projects.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-4-8-0-v4-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-4-8-0-v4-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

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