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rsyslog 7.2.0 (v7-stable) released

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

We are proud to announce the first stable version of the v7 branch. It contains only minor bug fixes in addition to the latest beta.

With that version, a full structured-logging/lumberjack enabled version is now available. For the top 5 advantages of rsyslog v7, please see

http://www.rsyslog.com/main-advantages-of-rsyslog-v7-vs-v5/

With this release, version 5 of rsyslog becomes legacy and is no longer supported by the rsyslog project. However, rsyslog v5 continues to be supported as part of Adiscon’s professional services for rsyslog, please see

http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/enterprise-support/

We would also like to point you to Rainer’s blog, where he describes the importance of this release in more detail. The relationship to v6 is also clarified. Please see

http://blog.gerhards.net/2012/10/new-v7v6-stable-v5-now-legacy.html

 

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-2-0-v7-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-2-0-v7-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

rsyslog 7.3.1 (v7-devel) released

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

We have just released 7.3.1 of the v7-devel branch. This version increases template processing speed, for the $NOW-family of properties very considerably. It also contains a compatibility change in regard to lumberjack structured logging.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-3-1-v7-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-3-1-v7-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

rsyslog 6.5.1 (v6-beta) released

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

This is the new v6-beta, which includes the full v6-subset of the new config language as well as somewhat improved support for lumberjack/CEE. This version concludes development efforts for v6.

Note that it is recommended to use v7 if you do not have any special need for v6.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-6-5-1-v6-beta/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-5-1-beta/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

Main Advantages of rsyslog v7 vs. v5

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in News, Top NewsTagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Why rsyslog V7:

  • greatly improved configuration language – the new language is much more intuitive than the legacy format. It will also prevent some typical mistakes simply by not permitting these invalid constructs. Note that legacy format is still fully supported (and you can of course do the same mistakes if you use legacy format).
  • greatly improved execution engine – with nested if/then/else constructs as well as the capability to modify variables during processing.
  • full support for structured logging and project lumberjack / CEE – this includes everything from being able to create, interpret and handle JSON-based structured log messages, including the ability to normalize legacy text log messages.
  • more plugins – like support for MongoDB, HDFS, and ElasticSearch as well as for the kernel’s new structured logging system.
  • higher performance – many optimizations all over the code, like 5 to 10 times faster execution time for script-based filters, enhanced multithreaded TCP input plugin, DNS cache and many more.

Of course, there are many more improvements. This list contains just the most important ones. For full details, check the file ChangeLog.

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