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RSyslog Windows Agent 6.1 Released

We are proud to announce the 6.1 release of Rsyslog Windows Agent.

This is a maintenance release and properly the last for this major
Version. We have hardened the Service code further and fixed multiple
minor bugs.

Full details are available via the version history.
Version 6.1 is a free download. Customers with existing 5.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 Windows Agent 6.0 Released

Release Date: 2019-07-01

Build-IDs: Service 6.0.0.200, Client 6.0.0.277

Features

  • Configuration Client using latest .Net Framework now.
  • Windows 2019 Support.
  • Configuration reload: Added support to update configuration from https url.
  • Property engine: Added new options
    • date-rfc3164strict: Same as date-rfc3164 but with two spaces
      after month if day is below 10.
    • crlftovbar: Replaces all CRLF or LF to vertical bar character.
    • replacechar: Replaces a single character with another single
      character, sample: %msg:$x:$y:replacechar%. More information’s can be
      found in the manual.
    • removecc: Removes all control characters from 0x00 to 0x1F
  • EventLog Monitor V2: Added JSON Output format Option to MessageFormat
    selection.
  • EventLog Monitor V2: Refactored code for performance improvements.
    Implemented Event Caching options for Publisher handles, Levels, Tasks and
    Keywords.
  • TLS Support: Enhanced error reporting when OpenSSL errors are being
    processed internally.
  • HTTP Request Action: Added support for https urls.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed configuration reload freeze when debug logging was enabled.
  • Syslog Action: Added missing RealSource option when using RFC3164 syslog
    header.

You can download Free Trial Version of RSyslog Windows Agent.

RSyslog Windows Agent 6.0 Released

We are proud to announce the next major release of Rsyslog Windows Agent, version 6.
Most importantly this version fully supports Windows Server 2019, enhanced cross-platform and mass deployment
support as well as provides even better performance.

Windows Server 2019 is becoming main-stream in many data centers. The new version now fully
supports the new Windows including all updated libraries. Native JSON expression of Windows Event
Log data enables easy integration into many other solutions. The configuration can now
automatically be updated from a central configuration repository. This option is very useful for large
deployments, especially with remote sites. Performance has even more been tuned all over the
product, with huge wins inside the Event Log Monitor service.

Full details are available via the version history.
Version 6.0 is a free download. Customers with existing 5.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 Windows Agent 5.2 Released

Release Date: 2019-04-25

Build-IDs: Service 5.2.0.195, Client 5.2.0.274

Features

  • Hardened Code using new utilities like cppcheck and LLVM.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed processing issues with date property replacer options.
  • Fixed a bug with UTF8 encoding detection (String content before the encoded string (BOM) was dropped).

You can download Free Trial Version of RSyslog Windows Agent.

RSyslog Windows Agent 5.2 Released

Adiscon is proud to announce the 5.2 release of Rsyslog Windows Agent.

This is a maintenance release and properly the last for this major
Version. We have hardened the Service code further and fixed multiple
minor bugs.

Full details are available via the version history.
Version 5.2 is a free download. Customers with existing 4.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 version numbering change

Rsyslog used a version number scheme of

8.<real-version>.0

where we incremented <real-version> every 6 weeks with each release. The 8 and 0 are constant (well, the 0 could change to 1 with a very important patch, but in practice we have only done this once).

While this scheme has worked pretty well since we introduced it, we often see people not understanding that there is really a big difference between 8.24 and e.g. 8.40. Followind recent trends in software versioning, we  will make more clear how old a version really is. Begining with today’s release, we change the version number slightly  to

8.yymm.0

where yy is the two-digit year and mm the two-digit month of the release date. We release every 6 weeks, so we will never have two releases within the same month.

So while you expected 8.41.0, you will now get 8.1901.0. To make things even more clear, rsyslog visible version output will be even more up to the point: rsyslog -v will now report “8.1901.0 (aka 2019.01)“.

Rainer Gerhards’ blog has more details on why we did this change and how we came to the new system.

RSyslog Windows Agent 5.1 Released

Release Date: 2018-08-23

Build-IDs: Service 5.1.0.193, Client 5.1.0.269

Features

  • Send RELP Action: Updated Librelp library to 1.2.17
  • Send RELP Action: Added TLS support (using OpenSSL library).
  • TLS Support: Added support for anonymous communication (Certless).
  • TLS Support: Added support to enable /disabled TLS communication methods.
  • TLS Support: Added support for setting advanced OpenSSL command parameters.
  • Property Engine: Added new option “cef” to convert a string into McAfee CEF Format.
  • OpenSSL: Added support to pass through OpenSSL diagnostic information into our own debugging system.
  • Lognorm Action: Added support to convert Array types into properties, printing converted properties into debug log now.

Bugfixes

  • File Monitor: Fixed issue with REGEX Message Separators when first char of message was matching.
  • Lognorm Action: Fixed issue that stopped Action from working when Output format was set to disabled.
  • Lognorm Action: Fixed issue when shutting down Service or doing a configuration reload when Lognorm Action is used.
  • TLS Support: Removed expired internal certificates.

You can download Free Trial Version of RSyslog Windows Agent.

RSyslog Windows Agent 5.1 Released

Adiscon is proud to announce the 5.1 release of Rsyslog Windows Agent.

While this is a minor release, it offers considerable security
improvements for syslog. Now, when TLS/SSL is configured, the user has
full control over TLS options like ciphers, hashes and protocols.
There are GUI settings for the most common options, but also the
ability to provide in-depth detail configuration of each and every
aspect via TLS library specific strings. The insecure protocol list
has been updated and the SSLv2 protocol is now disabled by
default.

The RELP protocol has been upgraded to the newest version and now also
supports TLS/SSL.

The LogNorm Action has been hardened and supports / processes  Array types now

The property replacer has also been enhanced: it now supports the new
“cef” option to convert properties into a valid McAffee CEF FORMAT
string.

Full details are available via the version history.
Version 5.1 is a free download. Customers with existing 4.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 Windows Agent 5.0 Released

Adiscon is proud to announce the 5.0 release of Rsyslog Windows Agent.

Rsyslog Windows Agent fully supports latest Windows 2016 and Windows 10 Creators update build 1709.

New load balancing capabilities have been added. This permits to balance load between multiple target syslog servers.

The product now supports log normalization capabilities via a sophisticated high performance normalizer. This enables it to handle complex processing right at the message source.

Performance has been slightly optimized and some minor features have been added. Full details are available via the version history.

Version 5.0 is a free download. Customers with existing 4.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 Windows Agent 5.0 Released

Release Date: 2018-04-11

Build-IDs: Service 5.0.0.185, Client 5.0.0.263

Features

  • File Monitor: Added new options “Process rest of file as one message” and Read  Filebuffer size for better regex message separator handling.
  • Syslog Action: Added support for multiple syslog servers (Load balancing)
  • Syslog Action: Backup Syslog Server is now tried on connect as well. Before, the backup server was only used when an existing connection to the primary server interrupted.
  • Core Engine: Enhanced debug output for network errors.
  • LogNorm Action: Updated Action to support liblognorm v2 rulebases.

Bugfixes

  • Property Engine: Fixed daylight handling when using RFC3339 string conversion. Daylight was incorrectly always applied.
  • Property Engine: Fixed dynamic properties conversion when using xml output. This bug caused some properties to be missing when sending them by SETP protocol or using Syslog Cache mode.
  • Configuration reload: Fixed missing SNMP Mibtree after configuration reload.

You can download Free Trial Version of RSyslog Windows Agent.

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