rsyslog

Version 4.6.6 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-06-24

• bugfix: memory leak in imtcp & subsystems under some circumstances
  This leak is tied to error conditions which lead to incorrect cleanup
  of some data structures. [backport from v6, limited testing under v4]
• bugfix: invalid processing in QUEUE_FULL condition
  If the the multi-submit interface was used and a QUEUE_FULL condition
  occured, the failed message was properly destructed. However, the
  rest of the input batch, if it existed, was not processed. So this
  lead to potential loss of messages and a memory leak. The potential
  loss of messages was IMHO minor, because they would have been dropped
  in most cases due to the queue remaining full, but very few lucky ones
  from the batch may have made it. Anyhow, this has now been changed so
  that the rest of the batch is properly tried to be enqueued and, if
  not possible, destructed.
• bugfix: invalid storage type for config variables
• bugfix: stream driver mode was not correctly set on tcp ouput on big
  endian systems.
  thanks varmojfekoj for the patch
• bugfix: IPv6-address could not be specified in omrelp
  this was due to improper parsing of “:”
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250
• bugfix: memory and file descriptor leak in stream processing
  Leaks could occur under some circumstances if the file stream handler
  errored out during the open call. Among others, this could cause very
  big memory leaks if there were a problem with unreadable disk queue
  files. In regard to the memory leak, this
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256
• bugfix: imfile potentially duplicates lines
  This can happen when 0 bytes are read from the input file, and some
  writer appends data to the file BEFORE we check if a rollover happens.
  The check for rollover uses the inode and size as a criterion. So far,
  we checked for equality of sizes, which is not given in this scenario,
  but that does not indicate a rollover. From the source code comments:
  Note that when we check the size, we MUST NOT check for equality.
  The reason is that the file may have been written right after we
  did try to read (so the file size has increased). That is NOT in
  indicator of a rollover (this is an actual bug scenario we
  experienced). So we need to check if the new size is smaller than
  what we already have seen!
  Also, under some circumstances an invalid truncation was detected. This
  code has now been removed, a file change (and thus resent) is only
  detected if the inode number changes.
• bugfix: a couple of problems that imfile had on some platforms, namely
  Ubuntu (not their fault, but occured there)
• bugfix: imfile utilizes 32 bit to track offset. Most importantly,
  this problem can not experienced on Fedora 64 bit OS (which has
  64 bit long’s!)
• bugfix: abort if imfile reads file line of more than 64KiB
  Thanks to Peter Eisentraut for reporting and analysing this problem.
  bug tracker: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221
• bugfix: omlibdbi did not use password from rsyslog.con
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=271
• some improvements thanks to clang’s static code analyzer
  • overall cleanup (mostly unnecessary writes and otherwise unused stuff)
  • bugfix: fixed a very remote problem in msg.c which could occur when
    running under extremely low memory conditions

Version 5.8.2 [V5-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-06-21

• bugfix: problems in failover action handling
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=270
  closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254

• bugfix: mutex was invalidly left unlocked during action processing
  At least one case where this can occur is during thread shutdown, which
  may be initiated by lower activity. In most cases, this is quite
  unlikely to happen. However, if it does, data structures may be
  corrupted which could lead to fatal failure and segfault. I detected
  this via a testbench test, not a user report. But I assume that some
  users may have had unreproducable aborts that were cause by this bug.

• bugfix: memory leak in imtcp & subsystems under some circumstances
  This leak is tied to error conditions which lead to incorrect cleanup
  of some data structures. [backport from v6]

• bugfix/improvement:$WorkDirectory now gracefully handles trailing slashes