Author : adisconteam

Version 4.1.6 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2009-04-07

• added new “csv” property replacer options to enable simple creation of CSV-formatted outputs (format from RFC4180 is used)
• implemented function support in RainerScript. That means the engine parses and compile functions, as well as executes a few build-in ones. Dynamic loading and registration of functions is not yet supported – but we now have a good foundation to do that later on.
• implemented the strlen() RainerScript function
• added a template output module
• added -T rsyslogd command line option, enables to specify a directory where to chroot() into on startup. This is NOT a security feature but introduced to support testing. Thus, -T does not make sure chroot() is used in a secure way. (may be removed later)
• added omstdout module for testing purposes. Spits out all messages to stdout – no config option, no other features
• added a parser testing suite (still needs to be extended, but a good start)
• modified $ModLoad statement so that for modules whom’s name starts with
  a dot, no path is prepended (this enables relative-pathes and should not break any valid current config)

• fixed a bug that caused action retries not to work correctly situation was only cleared by a restart
• bugfix: closed dynafile was potentially never written until another dynafile name was generated – potential loss of messages
• improved omfile so that it properly suspends itself if there is an i/o or file name generation error. This enables it to be used with the full high availability features of rsyslog’s engine
• bugfix: fixed some segaults on Solaris, where vsprintf() does not check for NULL pointers
• improved performance of regexp-based filters. Thanks to Arnaud Cornet for providing the idea and initial patch.
• added a new way how output plugins may be passed parameters. This is more effcient for some outputs. They new can receive fields not only as a single string but rather in an array where each string is seperated.
• added (some) developer documentation for output plugin interface
• bugfix: potential abort with DA queue after high watermark is reached There exists a race condition that can lead to a segfault. Thanks go to vbernetr, who performed the analysis and provided patch, which I only tweaked a very little bit.
• bugfix: imtcp did incorrectly parse hostname/tag Thanks to Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías for the patch.

Version 4.1.5 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2009-03-11

• bugfix: parser did not correctly parse fields in UDP-received messages
• added ERE support in filter conditions –
  new comparison operation “ereregex”

• added new config directive $RepeatedMsgContainsOriginalMsg so that the
  “last message repeated n times” messages, if generated, may
  have an alternate format that contains the message that is being repeated

Version 4.1.4 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2009-01-29

• bugfix: inconsistent use of mutex/atomic operations could cause segfault
  details are too many, for full analysis see blog post at:
  http://blog.gerhards.net/2009/01/rsyslog-data-race-analysis.html

• bugfix: unitialized mutex was used in msg.c:getPRI
  This was subtle, because getPRI is called as part of the debugging code
  (always executed) in syslogd.c:logmsg.

• bufgix: $PreserveFQDN was not properly handled for locally emitted
  messages

Version 4.1.3 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2008-12-17

• added $InputTCPServerAddtlFrameDelimiter config directive, which
  enables to specify an additional, non-standard message delimiter
  for processing plain tcp syslog. This is primarily a fix for the invalid
  framing used in Juniper’s NetScreen products. Credit to forum user
  Arv for suggesting this solution.

• added $InputTCPServerInputName property, which enables a name to be
  specified that will be available during message processing in the
  inputname property. This is considered useful for logic that treats
  messages differently depending on which input received them.

• added $PreserveFQDN config file directive
  Enables to use FQDNs in sender names where the legacy default
  would have stripped the domain part.
  Thanks to BlinkMind, Inc. http://www.blinkmind.com for sponsoring this
  development.

• bugfix: imudp went into an endless loop under some circumstances
  (but could also leave it under some other circumstances…)
  Thanks to David Lang and speedfox for reporting this issue.