8.2.1

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.
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