ChangeLog for 3.21.5 (devel)

Version 3.21.5 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2008-09-30

  • performance optimization: unnecessary time() calls during message
    parsing removed – thanks to David Lang for his excellent performance
    analysis

  • added new capability to property replacer: multiple immediately
    successive field delimiters are treated as a single one.
    Thanks to Zhuang Yuyao for the patch.

  • added message property “inputname”, which contains the name of the
    input (module) that generated it. Presence is depending on suport in
    each input module (else it is blank).

  • added system property “$myhostname”, which contains the name of the
    local host as it knows itself.

  • imported a number of fixes and enhancements from the stable and
    devel branches, including a fix to a potential segfault on HUP
    when using UDP listners

  • re-enabled gcc builtin atomic operations and added a proper
    ./configure check

  • bugfix: potential race condition when adding messages to queue
    There was a wrong order of mutex lock operations. It is hard to
    believe that really caused problems, but in theory it could and with
    threading we often see that theory becomes practice if something is only
    used long enough on a fast enough machine with enough CPUs ;)

  • cleaned up internal debug system code and made it behave better
    in regard to multi-threading
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