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rsyslog 5.9.4 (devel) released

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

This release provides support for “trusted properties”, which may enhance overall system security. This is a new concept and feedback on it is appreciated. For more details on trusted properties, please visit

http://www.rsyslog.com/what-are-trusted-properties/

or Rainer’s blog post with some more background about trusted properties:

http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/11/trusted-properties-in-rsyslog.html

In addition to this feature, we have reduced dependency on libgcrypt and fixed some bugs.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-9-4-v5-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-9-4-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

First Impression of Journald

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in NewsTagged , , , ,

We got a couple of questions on the planned new logging system that shall come with systemd. Rainer Gerhards, rsyslog’s development lead, has taken a quick look at journald and posted about his first impression. Have a look at his blog post journal and rsyslog if you are interested in how we think rsyslog is affected. In the mean time, there is also a description of why we think journald’s log chaining is simply broken and conveys a false sense of security.

rsyslog client for Windows

By Rainer GerhardsPosted on Posted in NewsTagged , , ,

As it currently looks, Adiscon will most probably create a specialised Windows client for rsyslog. This will be based on Adiscon’s MonitorWare technology and provide excellent and high speed integration of Windows clients into a rsyslog infrastructure. While the idea has somewhat matured, we are currently thinking about the details. Expect more information as discussions progress!

In the mean time, you may want to have a look at Adiscon’s EventReporter, which provides excellent Windows-to-rsyslog event log forwarding.

rsyslog 5.8.6 (v5-stable) released

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

This is a maintenance release offering bug fixes. For example for a small bug in property-based filter and a fix for $ActionExecOnlyOnce and more .For more detailed information, please read the changelog.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-8-6-v5-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-6-v5-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,

Tim Eifler

rsyslog 6.3.6 (v6-devel) released

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

We have just released a new development version of rsyslog v6. This is primarily a maintenance release fixing a really annoying problem with reading the config file.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-6-3-6-v6-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-3-6-v6-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

rsyslog 4.8.0 (v4-stable) released

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

There are no changes compared to 4.7.5, just a re-release with the new version number as new v4-stable. The most important new feature (for the v4-stable branch!) is Solaris support.

Note: major new development to v4 is concluded  and will only be done for custom projects.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-4-8-0-v4-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-4-8-0-v4-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

rsyslog multiple buxfixes released

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

Hi all,

There has a security issue been identified that can potentially lead to DoS. It is triggered by malformed RFC3164 messages. An abort only happens under very specific environmental trigger factors. Full details can be found in our security advisory here:

http://www.rsyslog.com/potential-dos-with-malformed-tag/

We would like to thank the Red Hat security team for finding this issue and working with us to resolve it.

As a consequence, we have updated all currently active versions. Please note that they do not only contain the fix for the security issue mentioned above but also other stability updates. For obvious reasons, updating to these versions is recommended. For details, please see the relevant ChangeLog.

  • v4-stable: 4.6.8
  • v4-beta: 4.7.5
  • v5-stable: 5.8.5
  • v5-devel: 5.9.3
  • v6-beta: 6.1.12
  • v6-devel: 6.3.5

All versions are available right now. If you do not want to update, you should consider applying an update to older versions. The fix is trivial, so it should apply to all vulnerable versions without problems (but we have not checked the myriad of versions out there). The security advisory contains the details.

The Changelogs and Download Links can be found below:

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

rsyslog 5.8.4 (v5-stable) released

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

This release contains several bugfixes for potential misadressing in the property replacer, memcpy overflow in allowed sender checking and more. For more detailed information, please read the changelog.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-8-4-v5-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-4-v5-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

rsyslog 6.3.4 (devel) released

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

This release brings bugfixes and further improvements to the rule engine. Most importantly, the (scoped, RainerScript-based) action object is now available. This enables users to get some early experience with the new system’s advanced features. Note that output plugins must support the new system. With this release, omfile and omusrmsg have been upgraded to support it. The next minor releases will bring more output module support for scoped actions.

Documentation for the new capabilities is upcoming at http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/node1.html

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-6-3-4-v6-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-3-4-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,

Florian Riedl

rsyslog 6.3.3 (devel) released

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

This is a very important milestone release. It features the new config parser and thus provides the basis for a more intuitive config format. With 6.3.3 there are already some enhancements to the format. However, more changes will come up with the next minor releases. For details, please check this link:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-3-3-config-format-improvements/

It is worth noting that the performance of script-based filters (“if … then”) has notable been improved. Preliminary benchmarks show an improvement of at least a factor of three (more detailed benchmarks will be done after the new scoped object statements have been introduced).

We would appreciate early adoption of this release. One goal in releasing it is to see if the new parser actually is able to handle all legacy configurations found in practice (note that the parser was written from scratch).

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-6-3-3-v6-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-3-3-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tom Bergfeld

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