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rsyslog 8.34.0 (v8-stable) released

By friedlPosted on Posted in News, Release Announcement, UncategorizedTagged , , , , ,

Today, we release rsyslog 8.34.0. Most notably is the large refactoring of the imfile module as well as the new module mmkubernetes (contributed). Additionaly, a lot of improvements and fixes have been added to the current release, too many to list them all. So please take a look at the changelog for all the details.

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rsyslog 8.33.0 (v8-stable) released

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

Today, we release rsyslog 8.33.0. This release has a number of changes, but most of these are under the hood. Some of the more obivous changes are the new include() script object and template json container. Also, rsyslog now has better support for running in a container environment. The full list of changes to rsyslog can be reviewed in the Changelog.

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What are your thoughts regarding current and potential rsyslog support channels?

By deorenPosted on Posted in News, Top NewsTagged , , , , , ,

Overview

Traditionally the rsyslog community has sought and provided support through three main channels:

  • mailing list
  • forums
  • ticketing system (at one time Bugzilla, now GitHub)

Over the years, the community support options have shifted to the point that we are considering retiring the forums in order to best direct users that post there to other, more current options that better fit their needs. It would appear that aside from specific cases, the time of the web forum has passed.

That said, we would like to get your feedback to best determine the way to move forward. What follows are some initial ideas to get the conversation started. Please feel free to respond here, via Twitter, the mailing list or on GitHub. Thank you for your time.

Potential Support options

The following items are all “whiteboard” topics, listed in no real order in an effort to start discussion. Neither the order or presence in the list indicates that a decision has already been made by the team to pursue the support option. Please feel free to suggest your own entries.

Keep the forums, send notifications of new posts made on the forums to the mailing list

  • Note: Attempts to respond to those notifications would not result in the replies being posted to the original topic on the forums.
  • Would this truly result in any additional responses to those forum posts than are currently being provided now?

Set forums to read-only, direct visitors to GitHub for support

  • Could GitHub serve as a replacement for the forums? If so, what do you think about mixing general questions with bug reports in the main project (rsyslog/rsyslog)?
  • Would a dedicated “project” (e.g., rsyslog/rsyslog-support) be useful?

    • Set forums to read-only, direct visitors to StackOverflow

    It would appear there is already solid participation there for questions tagged with rsyslog:

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rsyslog

    Official Twitter presence

    followers are encouraged to retweet rsyslog related questions, guides, etc to their followers.

    This is actually a “trick” entry of sorts! We already have a Twitter account that you can follow and interact with: @rsyslog

    • Do you already follow that account?
    • Would you retweet content from others?
    • Would you respond to help requests that are retweeted
    • If links to active GitHub issues are posted, will you take the time to go view them?

    Official Facebook presence

    Would you participate in discussions and support requests made there?

    IRC, XMPP, Slack, …

    • Would you participate?
    • Do you feel this could replace the forums?
    • Would this be more useful to you than the mailing list?

    Install rsyslog on Alpine

    https://alpinelinux.org/

    The Adiscon Alpine Repository  supports recent rsyslog versions for Alpine Linux including necessary third party packages.

    To install rsyslog on Alpine, simply execute the following commands as root from the commandline:

    cd /etc/apk/keys
wget http://alpine.adiscon.com/rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com-5a55e598.rsa.pub
echo 'http://alpine.adiscon.com/3.7/stable' >> /etc/apk/repositories
apk update
apk add rsyslog

     

    Questions? Suggestions? Bug Reports? Provide it here: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog-pkg-alpine/issues Feedback is appreciated!

    rsyslog 8.32.0 (v8-stable) released

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

    Today, we release rsyslog 8.32.0. This realease, again, sports a vast number of changes. E.g. there are a number of new or updated build requirements, namely: libfastjson 0.99.8, libczmq >= 3.0.2 and libcurl. Otherwise most notably is the major update that ompgsql has received through contribution. Other changes include modules like pmrfc3164, omhiredis, mmexternal, omprog, imfile, omfile, mmpstrucdata. The full list of changes to rsyslog can be reviewed in the Changelog.

    We have also made some major changes to the RHEL/CentOS packages for rsyslog. We are now using a modified spec file from the CentOS base repository for building the EL7 release RPM. We decided to go this way out of several reasons. The major reason was a huge issue with the startup scripts that we used, which did not really work well on EL7 systems. More details are available here: http://www.rsyslog.com/major-centos7-rpm-changes/ and here: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/2134#issuecomment-355483536

    Another reason is, that we wanted to make our own RPMs more similar to those in the base repository to avoid major conflicts in the future. That also means, that some additional module packages are not available anymore, because they are now included in the base rsyslog package (mmanon, mmutf8fix, ommail and pmaixforwardedfrom). All other additional sub-packages are still available.

    Because the Launchpad build environment [1] is currently unavailable, we cannot produce packages for Ubuntu at the moment. They will be published once the systems are available again.

    ChangeLog:

    [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-announce/2018-January/000103.html

    libfastjson 0.99.8 released

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

    This is a new fork of the json-c library, which is optimized for liblognorm processing.

    This release provides several fixes to libfastjson. Most notably is the bugfix for proper handling of constant key names. For more details, please refer to the changelog below.

    Changelog:

    0.99.8 2017-12-18
    – make build under gcc7 with strict settings (warning==error)
    – bugfix: constant key names not properly handled
    if fjson_object_object_add_ex() is used with option
    FJSON_OBJECT_KEY_IS_CONSTANT, fjson_object_object_del() will still
    try to delete the key name. Depending on use, this can lead to
    double-free, use-after-free or no problem.
    see also https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/1839
    closes https://github.com/rsyslog/libfastjson/issues/148
    – fix potentially invalid return value of fjson_object_iter_begin
    this could lead to callers doing improper opreations and thus
    could lead to a segfault in callers
    detected by Coverity scan, CID 198891
    – fix small potential memory leak in json_tokener (unlinkely to occur)
    detected by Coverity Scan, CID 198890

    Download:

    http://download.rsyslog.com/libfastjson/libfastjson-0.99.8.tar.gz

    sha256sum: 3544c757668b4a257825b3cbc26f800f59ef3c1ff2a260f40f96b48ab1d59e07

    As always, feedback is appreciated.

    Best regards,
    Florian Riedl

    rsyslog 8.31.0 (v8-stable) released

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

    Today, we release rsyslog 8.31. This is probably one of the biggest releases in the past couple of years. While it also offers great new functionality, what really important about it is the focus on further improved software quality. For a more detailed description, please read Rainer’s blog post. Detailed information about the huge list of changes is available in the changelog.

    http://blog.gerhards.net/2017/11/rsyslog-831-important-release.html

    The packages have received some notable changes as well. First off, we were able to implement the Redis output module as a separate package on Ubuntu 14.04 and newer. Also there was a dependency change for the ommongo module, thus it is now only available on Ubuntu 16.04 or newer, but not on CentOS/RHEL anymore. Platform restrictions are unavoidable right now due to dependency availability.

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    rsyslog 8.30.0 (v8-stable) released

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

    We have released rsyslog 8.30.0.

    This release features a large number of changes. First we should mention the new build requirements for libfastjson 0.99.7 and the build recommendation for imjournal being libsystemd-journal >= 234.

    Notable changes are that (JSON) variables are now handled case-insensitive by default, imjournal being able to switch to persistent journal in runtime and the complete refactoring of mmanon. Also, a lot of improvements have been added to the error reporting as well as many bugfixes.

    For a complete list of changes, fixes and enhancements, please visit the ChangeLog.

    The packages will follow when they are finished.

    ChangeLog:
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