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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.

Changelog for 6.2.1 (v6-stable)

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Version 6.2.1 [v6-stable], 2012-05-10

  • change plugin config interface to be compatible with pre-v6.2 system
    The functionality was already removed (because it is superseeded by the
    v6.3+ config language), but code was still present. I have now removed
    those parts that affect interface. Full removal will happen in v6.3, in
    order to limit potential regressions. However, it was considered useful
    enough to do the interface change in v6-stable; this also eases merging
    branches!
  • re-licensed larger parts of the codebase under the Apache license 2.0
  • bugfix: omprog made rsyslog abort on startup if not binary to
    execute was configured
  • bugfix: imklog invalidly computed facility and severity
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=313
  • bugfix: stopped DA queue was never processed after a restart due to a
    regression from statistics module
  • bugfix: memory leak in array passing output module mode
  • 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.
  • bugfix/tcpflood: sending small test files did not work correctly

Changelog for 5.9.7 (v5-beta)

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , , , , ,

Version 5.9.7 [V5-BETA], 2012-05-10

  • added capability to specify substrings for field extraction mode
  • 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.

rsyslog 5.9.7 (v5-beta) released

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

This is primarily a bug-fixing release. It also introduces the ability to extract substrings from within property fields. This is a recommended update for all users of the v5-beta branch. It will probably turn into the next v5-stable soon, so everyone is encouraged to give this version a try in order to iron out any remaining bugs.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-9-7-v5-beta/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-9-7-beta/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

Changelog for 5.8.11 (v5-stable)

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Version 5.8.11  [V5-stable] 2012-05-03

  • 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.
  • bugfix: active input in “light delay state” could block rsyslog termination, at least for prolonged period of time
  • bugfix: imptcp input name could not be set. Config directive was accepted, but had no effect
  • 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: hostname was not requeried on HUP
    Thanks to Per Jessen for reporting this bug and Marius Tomaschewski for his help in testing the fix.
  • bugfix: inside queue.c, some thread cancel states were not correctly reset. While this is a bug, we assume it did have no practical effect because the reset as it was done was set to the state the code actually had at this point. But better fix this…
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