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6.3.9

rsyslog 6.3.9 (v6-beta) released

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

This is a new beta release vor the v6 branch. It is a follow-up to the current devel-branch. This release contains a lot of bugfixes and has some new features added like the capability to specify substrings for field extraction mode or the new property “jsonf”. More detailed information can be found in the changelog.

Since this is a new beta version, it would be nice to get some test results on the features and fixes from the userbase. Responses can be submitted via the mailing list.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-6-3-9-v6-beta/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-3-9-beta/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 6.3.9 (v6-beta)

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , , , ,

Version 6.3.9  [BETA] 2012-05-22

  • bugfix: imtcp could cause hang during reception this also applied to other users of core file tcpsrv.c, but imtcp was by far the most prominent and widely-used, the rest rather exotic (like imdiag)
  • added capability to specify substrings for field extraction mode
  • added the “jsonf” property replacer option (and fieldname)
  • bugfix: omudpspoof did not work correctly if no spoof hostname was configured
  • bugfix: property replacer option “json” could lead to content loss message was truncated if escaping was necessary
  • bugfix: assigned ruleset was lost when using disk queues
    This looked quite hard to diagnose for disk-assisted queues, as the pure memory part worked well, but ruleset info was lost for messages stored inside the disk queue.
  • bugfix/imuxsock: solving abort if hostname was not set; configured hostname was not used (both merge regressions)
  • bugfix/omfile: template action parameter was not accepted (and template name set to “??” if the parameter was used)
    Thanks to Brian Knox for alerting us on this bug.
  • bugfix: ommysql did not properly init/exit the mysql runtime library this could lead to segfaults. Triggering condition: multiple action instances using ommysql.  Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for reporting this problem and providing an initial patch (which my solution is based on, I need to add more code to clean the mess up).
  • bugfix: rsyslog did not terminate when delayable inputs were blocked due to unvailable sources. Fixes:
    http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299
    Thanks to Marcin M for bringing up this problem and Andre Lorbach for helping to reproduce and fix it.
  • added capability to specify substrings for field extraction mode
  • bugfix: disk queue was not persisted on shutdown, regression of fix to
    http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299
    The new code also handles the case of shutdown of blocking light and full delayable sources somewhat smarter and permits, assuming sufficient timouts, to persist message up to the max queue capacity. Also some nits in debug instrumentation have been fixed.
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