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libfastjson 0.99.7 released

This is a new fork of the json-c library, which is optimized for liblognorm processing.

This release adds the option for case-insensitive comparisons and removes userdata and custom-serialization functions. For more details, please refer to the changelog below.

Changelog:

0.99.7 2017-10-17
– added option for case-insensitive comparisons
This permits to search for json keys in a case-sensitive way. The default is “off”, as this is against the JSON spec. However, rsyslog needs this capability to increase usability inside the variable system.
We add a new API call to switch between case-sensitive and case-insensitive comparison, with case-sensitive being the default.
closes https://github.com/rsyslog/libfastjson/issues/142
– Removed userdata and custom-serialization functions
Reasoning (from pull request):
The library uses the concept of “userdata” and “custom serialization functions” that can be set from user space. However, to effectively make use of this feature, a user must have a deep understanding of the internal data representation of the library, which makes this feature not very useful.
But what is worse: internally, the library itself also sometimes assigns data to this userdata member (especially when working with doubles), and it also sometimes assigns alternative serialization functions. This makes the feature even more unusable, because as a user you never can know when the userdata pointer is save to use for your own settings, and when you must leave it alone because it is used by the library.
Long story short. In this pull request I got rid of the userdata pointer completely. The case where the library was using the “userdata” (for storing the original string representation of a parsed double) has been moved into the union that is already used for storing values.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/libfastjson/pull/141
Thanks to Emiel Bruijntjes for the patch.

Download:

http://download.rsyslog.com/libfastjson/libfastjson-0.99.7.tar.gz

sha256sum: 373cca41cad90fd288998696cd56cc72df75fb094db82b4e95d78fa61910f690

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

RSyslog Windows Agent 4.3 Released

Adiscon is proud to announce the 4.3 release of MonitorWare Agent.

This release contains some minor but useful features. Most important the debug output format has been enhanced. The new configuration client contains a DebugLog Viewer which lets you load and analyze the debug log in real-time. It is even possible to filter debug output by Service or Action which makes troubleshooting configuration issues much easier. For more details on all changes see the Version History.

Detailed information can be found in the version history below.

Build-IDs: Service 4.3.0.175, Client 4.3.0.255

Features

  • Configuration Client: Added DebugLog Viewer utility which can be used to analyze and filter the service debug log.
  • Configuration Reload: The random delay can now set up to 24 hours and does not affect the service control manager communication anymore.
  • Send to Communication Port Action: Comport are now kept open and the connection will be reused each time the action is called.
  • Debug Output: The format has been extended to include additional data and reformatted in many cases.
  • Engine: Added automatic crash generation and report function. If crashes can be caught internally, a dumpfile will be generated and send to Adiscon if allowed in Debug options.

Bugfixes

  • Syslog Action: Fixed an issue parsing IPv6 Address. When an IPv6 Address
    was used, the last digit pair was incorrectly removed to be set as port.

Version 4.3 is a free download. Customers with existing 3.x keys can contact our Sales department for upgrade prices. If you have a valid Upgrade Insurance ID, you can request a free new key by sending your Upgrade Insurance ID to sales@adiscon.com. Please note that the download enables the free 30-day trial version if used without a key – so you can right now go ahead and evaluate it.

rsyslog 8.29.0 (v8-stable) released

We have released rsyslog 8.29.0.

This release features a number of changes. E.g. imptcp now has an experimental parameter for multiline messages, and new statistics counters.

Most notably though, is the improved error reporting in the rsyslog core and in several modules like imtcp, imptcp, omfwd and the core modules. There is also an article available about the improved/enhanced error reporting:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/improving-rsyslog-debug-output-jan-gerhards

If you have questions or feedback in relation to the article and/or debug output, please let us know or leave a comment below the article.

Other than that, the new version provides quite a number of bugfixes.

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

The packages will follow when they are finished.

ChangeLog:

RSyslog Windows Agent 4.2 Released

Adiscon is proud to announce the 4.2 release of MonitorWare Agent.

Besides some bugfixes (See Version History for details) a few new features have been added to this minor release. Most important is the ability to use regular expressions as compare operation when filtering properties. Properties can also be converted into IPv4 or IPv6 Addresses now, and the Syslog Priority/Facility can be overwritten in the Syslog Action.

Detailed information can be found in the version history below.

Build-IDs: Service 4.2.0.170, Client 4.2.0.250

Features

  • Syslog Action: Added support to overwrite Syslog Priority/Facility
  • Property Engine: Added two new property replacer options “toipv4address” and “toipv6address” to resolve a property into a valid IPv4 or IPv6 Address.
  • Filter Engine: Implemented a new regular expressions compare operation.
    More details on how to use REGEX can be found in the new documentation.
  • Configuration Reload: Added new options to add a random delay between configuration checks. The delay is limited to 60 seconds as it will also delay the service control manager communication.

Bugfixes

  • Syslog Action: Fixed bug in Syslog Cache processing when saved messages were larger than 4096 bytes.
  • Filter Engine: Fixed Extended IP Filtering when using lower or greater compare operation.
  • File Configuration: Fixed reading Filter values containing backslashes.
    They weren’t removed properly in filter values.

Version 4.2 is a free download. Customers with existing 3.x keys can contact our Sales department for upgrade prices. If you have a valid Upgrade Insurance ID, you can request a free new key by sending your Upgrade Insurance ID to sales@adiscon.com. Please note that the download enables the free 30-day trial version if used without a key – so you can right now go ahead and evaluate it.

rsyslog 8.28.0 (v8-stable) released

We have released rsyslog 8.28.0.

This release features a lot of changes. Again, the most notable change is a way more robust, yet still experimental, support for Kafka output and input. In addition to this, there is a new build requirement for librelp 1.2.14 du to API requirements in imrelp and many changes/fixes for omfwd, imfile, mmdblookup, imtcp and many more.

Please note that Kafka Support requires the librdkafka library as dependency, which itself has some new dependencies.

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

The packages will follow when they are finished.

ChangeLog:

rsyslog 8.27.0 (v8-stable) released

We have released rsyslog 8.27.0.

This release provides, apart from a lot of fixes, many useful feature enhancements. Most notably is the imkafka module, which allows the use of kafka as an input. In addition to this, imptcp and imtcp received quite a number of enhancements and the overall error reporting got improved quite a bit.

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

ChangeLog:

libfastjson 0.99.6 released

This is a new fork of the json-c library, which is optimized for liblognorm processing.

This release fixes a build issue under Solaris.

Changelog:

0.99.6 2017-05-12
– fix a build issue under Solaris

Download:

http://download.rsyslog.com/libfastjson/libfastjson-0.99.6.tar.gz

sha256sum: 95e3d371c82b5d85c7294d46c923b3fee0384e1541a1556f0ca185170eb27270

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

libfastjson 0.99.5 released

This is a new fork of the json-c library, which is optimized for liblognorm processing.

This release brings a lot of fixes and changes. Most notably, libfastjson now builds under AIX and under Solaris again.

Changelog:

0.99.5 2017-05-03
– fix tautology comparison in tautology in `fjson_object_iter_equal`
– made build under Solaris again
– made to build under AIX
Thanks to github user purnimam1 for the patch
– fix floating point representation when fractional part is missing
see also https://github.com/rsyslog/libfastjson/issues/126
Thanks to Jan Gerhards for the patch.
– m4: fix detection of atomics
In cross-compilation, it is impossible to run code at configure time to
detect the target specifics.
As such, AC_TRY_RUN fails miserably to detect reliably that atomic
intrisics are present in a toolchain, and decides they are not just
because this is cross-compilation.
Instead of AC_TRY_RUN, use AC_LINK_IFELSE that does not need to actually
run code, since all we’re interested in is whether the intrisics are
present (or not). Fix both the 32- and 64-bit variants, even if the
latter is not used currently.
Fixes build failures detected by the Buildroot autobuilders, like:
http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/23a/23ac0e742ed3a70ae4d038f8c9eadc23e708f671/build-end.log
http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/192/1923d0b570adba494f83747a9610ea6ec35f5223/build-end.log
and many other cases, espcially on architectures where such intrsics are
present, but where the toolchain does not have threads (and anyway, it
is much more efficient to use the intrisics rather than use mutexes).
Thanks to Yann E. MORIN for the patch.
– add fjson_object_dump() and fjson_object_write() functions
… that make it possible to dump the json tree without having to
dynamically allocate a string, and to write the tree to a FILE*.
NOTE: right now, most of the code is simply copied from the functions
that use the “printbuf” for writing the data. I have not touched the old
printbuf-implementation, because some other code may still rely on it.
However, in my opinion these printbuf-based functions (if it is desirable
to keep them in the first place) can now be re-implemented to use the more
flexible fjson_object_dump() function.
MAINTAINER NOTE: we need to performance-test any new implementation and will
do so. The results will ultimately decide which parts of the code remain in
the codebase.
Thanks to Emiel Bruijntjes for the patch.

Download:

http://download.rsyslog.com/libfastjson/libfastjson-0.99.5.tar.gz

sha256sum: 8aecdc111da2beebc09e99e2b51e13b70f219c5a095c38db953a75fde51779e9

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

rsyslog 8.26.0 (v8-stable) released

We have released rsyslog 8.26.0.

This release has liblognorm 2.0.3 as a build requirement. Also, there were quite some changes like internal error messages are enabled at all times and many more fixes and additions to modules like imrelp, imptcp, omfwd and many many more.

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

ChangeLog:
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