rsyslog 8.2.1 (v8-stable) released
We have just released 8.2.1 of the v8-stable branch.
This release permits to build against json-c 0.12. Due to the ABI breckage, this is necessary. Json-c versions prior to 0.12 had security issues, so this is desirable. At least some distros have fixed the security issue in older versions of json-c, so this seems to apply mostly when building from sources.
Additionaly, the doc is no longer shipped as part of the rsyslog tarball to allow de-coupled release cycles.
Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v8-stable/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 8.2.1 (v8-stable)
Version 8.2.1 [v8-stable] 2014-04-17
- permits to build against json-c 0.12
Unfortunately, json-c had an ABI breakage, so this is necessary. Note that versions prior to 0.12 had security issues (CVE-2013-6370, CVE-2013-6371) and so it is desirable to link against the new version.
Thanks to Thomas D. for the patch. Note that at least some distros have fixed the security issue in older versions of json-c, so this seems to apply mostly when building from sources. - doc is no longer shipped as part of the rsyslog tarball
Instead, the rsyslog-doc project creates its own tarball. This is the result of a mailing list discussion after the 8.2.0 release with a tarball-in-tarball approach, which was disliked by almost all distro maintainers. This move also has the advantage of de-coupling the release cycles of both projects a bit (which turned out to be a bit problematic in practice). - bugfix: mmutf8fix did not detect two invalid sequences
Thanks to Axel Rau for the patch.
RSyslog Windows Agent 2.2 Released
Adiscon is proud to announce the 2.2 release of RSyslog Windows Agent.
This is the maintenance release and contains mainly bugfixes.
Most notably, this version includes OpenSSL library 1.0.1g. This fixes the latest openssl security issues known as heartbleed.
Remote Eventlog Monitoring in Eventlog Monitor V2 has been improved.
Detailed information can be found in the version history below.
Build-IDs: Service 2.2.117, Client 2.2.0.141
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Version 2.2 is a free download. Customers with existing 1.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 8.3.0 (v8-devel) released
We have just released 8.3.0 of the v8-devel branch.
This opens the next iteration of the v8-devel branch. As its most important feature, this release offers the external plugin message modification interface and comes with a full sample of a credit card anonymizer in python.
ChangeLog:
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-0-v8-devel/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/
Feedback is *very much* appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 8.3.0 (v8-devel)
Version 8.3.0 [v8-devel] 2014-04-10
- new plugin for anonymizing credit card numbers
Thanks to Peter Slavov for providing the code. - external message modification modules are now supported
They are bound via the new native module “mmexternal”. Also, a sample skeleton for an external python message modification module has been added. - new $jsonmesg property with JSON representation of whole message object
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/19 - improved error message for invalid field extraction in string template
see also:
http://kb.monitorware.com/problem-with-field-based- extraction-t12299.html - fix build problems on Solaris
- NOTE: a json-c API that we begun to use requires the compiler to be in c99 mode. By default, we select it automatically. If you modify this and use gcc, be sure to include “-std=c99” in your compiler flags. This seems to be necessary only for older versions of gcc.
Introducing the rsyslog config builder tool
Wouldn’t it be great if we had an interactive tool that permitted it novices to build complex rsyslog configurations interactively? Without any need to understand the inner workings or even terminology? Indeed, that would not only be great, but in our opinion also remove a lot of pressure that we have on rsyslog’s documentation part.
In the light of this, we started to work on a tool called the “rsyslog configuration builder“. An initial preview goes life right now today and we invite everyone to play with it. The initial version is hopefully already useful for many cases. However, the primary intent is to gather community feedback, reactions and further suggestions.
The initial version has a restricted set of supported inputs and outputs, as well as other constructs. It works with rsyslog v7.6 and above. The tool can be used anonymously and configurations are kept during the session, with the session timeout being a couple of hours. So that should be a fair amount of time to build your config. For the future, we plan to permit saving the config when logged in into the site. That way, you can work multiple days on a single configuration.
We have many more enhancements on our mind, but first of all we would like to get your feedback. You can provide feedback any way you like, but we would be extremely happy if you post either to the rsyslog mailing list or create an issue in the rsyslog website’s github project.
LibLogging 1.0.4 released
liblogging 1.0.4 [download]
We have released liblogging 1.0.4.
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v1.0.4 2014-04-03
– fix build problems on some platforms (namely RHEL/CENTOS 5)
– add –disable-man pages ./configure option
This permits to totally turn off man page handling. This is useful for
platforms like RHEL/CENTOS 5 where rst2man is hard to get when building
from git is desired.
– lower build system requirements to autoconf 2.59
This permits building on RHEL/CENTOs 5 with stock autotools.
rsyslog 8.2.0 (v8-stable) released
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-2-0-v8-stable/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v8-stable/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 8.2.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.2.0 [v8-stable] 2014-04-02
This starts a new stable branch based on 8.1.6 plus the following changes:
- we now use doc from the rsyslog-doc project
As such, the ./doc subtree has been removed. Instead, a cache of the rsyslog-doc project’s files has been included in ./rsyslog-doc.tar.gz. Note that the exact distribution mode for the doc is still under discussion and may change in future releases. This was agreed upon on the rsyslog mailing list. For doc issues and corrections, be sure to work with the rsyslog-doc project. It is currently hosted at https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog-doc - add support for specifying the liblogging-stdlog channel spec
new global parameter “stdlog.channelspec” - add “
defaultnetstreamdrivercertfile” global variable to set a default for the certfile.
Thanks to Radu Gheorghe for the patch. - omelasticsearch: add new “usehttps” parameter for secured connections
Thanks to Radu Gheorghe for the patch. - “action resumed” message now also specifies module type which makes troubleshooting a bit easier. Note that we cannot output all the config details (like destination etc) as this would require much more elaborate code changes, which we at least do not like to do in the stable version.
- add capability to override GnuTLS path in build process
Thanks to Clayton Shotwell for the patch - better and more consistent action naming, action queues now always contain the word “queue” after the action name
- bugfix: ompipe did resume itself even when it was still in error
See: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/35
Thanks to github user schplat for reporting
rsyslog 7.6.3 (v7-stable) released
This release offers a couple of bug-fixes and also supports better interaction with librelp 1.2.5, which in turn supports anonymous TLS on platforms like CENTOS/RHEL 6 where GnuTLS is too old and RELP TLS was completely disable previously.
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-3-v7-stable/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl