Version 8.18.0 [v8-stable] 2016-04-19 testbench: When running privdrop tests testbench tries to drop user to “rsyslog”, “syslog” or “daemon” when running as root and you don’t explict set RSYSLOG_TESTUSER environment variable. Make sure the unprivileged testuser can write into tests/ dir! templates: add option to convert timestamps to UTC closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/730 omjournal: fix segfault (regression […]
Changelog for 8.17.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.17.0 [v8-stable] 2016-03-08 NEW REQUIREMENT: libfastjson see also: http://blog.gerhards.net/2015/12/rsyslog-and-liblognorm-will-switch-to.html new testbench requirement: faketime command line tool This is used to generate a controlled environment for time-based tests; if not available, tests will gracefully be skipped. improve json variable performance We use libfastjson’s alternative hash function, which has been proven to be much faster than […]
Changelog for 8.16.0 (v8-stable)
—————————————————————————— Version 8.16.0 [v8-stable] 2016-01-26 rsgtutil: Added extraction support including loglines and hash chains. More details on how to extract loglines can be found in the rsgtutil manpage. See also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/561 clean up doAction output module interface We started with char * pointers, but used different types of pointers over time. This lead to alignment […]
Changelog for 8.15.0 (v8-stable)
—————————————————————————— Version 8.15.0 [v8-stable] 2015-12-15 KSI Lib: Updated code to run with libksi 3.4.0.5 Also libksi 3.4.0.x is required to build rsyslog if ksi support is enabled. New libpackages have been build as well. KSI utilities: Added option to ser publication url. Since libksi 3.4.0.x, there is no default publication url anymore. The publication url […]
Changelog for 8.14.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.14.0 [v8-stable] 2015-11-03 add property “rawmsg-after-pri” bugfix: potential misadresseing in imfile Could happen when wildcards were used. see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/532 see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/534 Thanks to zhangdaoling for the bugfix. bugfix: re_extract RainerScript function did not work Thanks to Janmejay Singh for the patch
Changelog for 8.12.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.12.0 [v8-stable] 2015-08-11 Harmonize resetConfigVariables values and defaults see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/pull/413 Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch. GT/KSI: fix some issues in signature file format and add conversion tool The file format is incompatible to previous format, but tools have been upgraded to handle both and also an option been added to convert […]
Changelog for 8.11.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.11.0 [v8-stable] 2015-06-30 new signature provider for Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI) added build system: re-enable use of “make distcheck” bugfix imfile: regex multiline mode ignored escapeLF option Thanks to Ciprian Hacman for reporting the problem closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/370 bugfix omkafka: fixed several concurrency issues, most of them related to dynamic topics. Thanks to Janmejay Singh for […]
Changelog for 8.10.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.10.0 [v8-stable] 2015-05-19 imfile: add capability to process multi-line messages based on regex input parameter “endmsg.regex” was added for that purpose. The new mode provides much more power in processing different multiline-formats. pmrfc3164: add new parameters “detect.yearAfterTimestamp” This supports timestamps as generated e.g. by some Aruba Networks equipment. “permit.squareBracesInHostname” Permits to use “hostnames” in […]
Changelog for 8.9.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.9.0 [v8-stable] 2015-04-07 omprog: add option “hup.forward” to forwards HUP to external plugins This was suggested by David Lang so that external plugins (and other programs) can also do HUP-specific processing. The default is not to forward HUP, so no change of behavior by default. imuxsock: added capability to use regular parser chain Previously, […]
Changelog for 8.8.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.8.0 [v8-stable] 2015-02-24 omkafka: add support for dynamic topics and auto partitioning Thanks to Tait Clarridge for the patches. imtcp/imptcp: support for broken Cisco ASA TCP syslog framing omfwd: more detailled error messages in case of UDP send error TLS syslog: enable capability to turn on GnuTLS debug logging This provides better diagnostics in […]