This release opens the new 7.5 development branch. Most importantly, this version provides certificate-based authentication for RELP. It also includes mmfields, a module that can be used to parse CEF and other similar delimited formats. BSD-support has been improved and imjournal has been hardened to prevent corrupt journal databases from spamming the system too much. […]
BSD-Style blocks will go away in rsyslog v7
Rsyslog supports BSD-style blocks since ages. They were a pretty handy tool to group actions together that should act only on remote hosts or log messages from specific programs. However, the v7 config system with its full nesting capabilities provides a much better – and easy to use – way to specify this. If both […]