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rsyslog 7.3.5 (v7-devel) released

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , , , ,

Version 7.3.5 is an update to the development branch. It contains new features: now, ommysql supports batching, which results in overall better system performance. Also, omudpspoof has been enhanced to support fragmentation for large messages. Omudpspoof now also supports the native v7 config format. Lastly, the script optimizer has been enhanced and detects and considerably optimizes some frequently-used constructs (like if $syslogfacility-text == “kernel” and such). Of course, there are also a couple of bug fixes, the most important one addresses a potential segfault that can happen in imuxock.

All users of the 7.3 branch are advised to update to this version.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-3-5-v7-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-3-5-v7-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

Version support policy change

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in NewsTagged , , , ,

We will be changing our policy so that only the latest stable build will be officially supported. This is done in an effort to concentrate resouces on building new and great things, instead of wasting a lot of time merging from old versions. A lot of -competing- projects have this policy and thus can move faster. We don’t want to carry that disadvantage any further with us.

For folks with support contracts, of course nothing changes: we always supported all versions – no matter how old – under these contracts (as long as technically possible). Please also note that we always consider older, but frequently used versions when it comes to important bug fixes (for example, I lately added a couple of fixes to v5.10, which is no longer officially supported for quite a while).

I would like to point out that rsyslog has a very considerate version management, with keeping major versions in different branches and (via professional support) taking care of each old version. This enterprise release scheme is under no discussion.

As a side-note: the discussion was started when I thought about non-critical fixes that I did for v7 and we thought about if it really makes sense to spend time to backport them to v6. There are also some enhancement-like “bugfixes” (like better config error messages), which will stay with the devel branch and mature into the next stable (if for nothing else, than for their regression potential).

Best regards,
Rainer Gerhards

rsyslog 7.3.4 (v7-devel) released

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , , ,

This release most importantly contains drastic improvements of disk queue performance (including DA queues). The new code saves one third of file IO calls, improving both rsyslogd as well as overall system performance. It also contains some smaller enhancements as well as bug fixes.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-3-4-v7-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-3-4-v7-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

rsyslog 7.2.3 (v7-stable) released

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , ,

This is mainly a re-release of 7.2.2 with an important regression fix. Version 7.2.2 caused premature end of config file (and most often rsyslog termination) if an $IncludeConfig directive was done on a wildcard that matched no files. This is a default situation on my distro plain installs. Users are strongly urged to upgrade to 7.2.3. Note that we did not build RPMs for 7.2.2 as we noticed the problem early enough.

Version 7.2.3 is also available as RPM via the Adiscon repository (see http://www.rsyslog.com/rhelcentos-rpms/ ).

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-2-3-v7-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-2-3-v7-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

rsyslog 7.3.3 (v7-devel) released

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , , , ,

We have just released 7.3.3 of the v7-devel branch. This release most importantly provides increased performance for the disk queue subsystem. Especially CPU-use will be much lower when unspooling disk queues. It also contains all known fixes for v7, some imported from v7-stable and earlier versions.

 

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-3-3-v7-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-3-3-v7-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,

Florian Riedl

rsyslog 7.3.2 (v7-devel) released

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , , , , , ,

This release introduced a totally new rate-limiting system for all modules as well as much better “last message repeated n times” handling. For details, please see Rainer’s blog at

http://blog.gerhards.net/2012/10/rate-limiting-in-rsyslog-732.html

Besides this feature, the version also includes enhancements for omelasticsearch as well as input batching support for imudp (which should provide some performance boost on very busy systems). Also, action-like statements (call, stop, …) are now supported in action lists. Of course, there are also some bugfixes, many imported from v6 and v7.2.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-3-2-v7-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-3-2-v7-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

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