Changelog for 6.1.9
Version 6.1.9 [BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-06-14
- bugfix: memory leak in imtcp & subsystems under some circumstances
This leak is tied to error conditions which lead to incorrect cleanup
of some data structures. [backport from v6.3] - bugfix: $ActionFileDefaultTemplate did not work
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262
Changelog for 5.9.0 (v5-devel)
Version 5.9.0 [V5-DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-06-08
- imfile: added $InputFileMaxLinesAtOnce directive
- enhanced imfile to support input batching
- added capability for imtcp and imptcp to activate keep-alive packets
at the socket layer. This has not been added to imttcp, as the latter is
only an experimental module, and one which did not prove to be useful.
reference: http://kb.monitorware.com/post20791.html - added support to control KEEPALIVE settings in imptcp
this has not yet been added to imtcp, but could be done on request. - $ActionName is now also used for naming of queues in impstats
as well as in the debug output - bugfix: do not open files with full privileges, if privs will be dropped
This make the privilege drop code more bulletproof, but breaks Ubuntu’s
work-around for log files created by external programs with the wrong
user and/or group. Note that it was long said that this “functionality”
would break once we go for serious privilege drop code, so hopefully
nobody still depends on it (and, if so, they lost…). - bugfix: pipes not opened in full priv mode when privs are to be dropped
- this begins a new devel branch for v5
- better handling of queue i/o errors in disk queues. This is kind of a
bugfix, but a very intrusive one, this it goes into the devel version
first. Right now, “file not found” is handled and leads to the new
emergency mode, in which disk action is stopped and the queue run
in direct mode. An error message is emited if this happens. - added support for user-level PRI provided via systemd
- added new config directive $InputTCPFlowControl to select if tcp
received messages shall be flagged as light delayable or not. - enhanced omhdfs to support batching mode. This permits to increase
performance, as we now call the HDFS API with much larger message
sizes and far more infrequently - bugfix: failover did not work correctly if repeated msg reduction was on
affected directive was: $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended on
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236
Changelog for 6.3.1 (devel)
Version 6.3.1 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-06-07
- added a first implementation of a DNS name cache this still has a couple of weaknesses, like no expiration of entries, suboptimal algorithms — but it should perform much better than what we had previously. Implementation will be improved based on feedback during the next couple of releases
Changelog for 6.3.0 (devel)
Version 6.3.0 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-06-01
- introduced new config system
http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/06/new-rsyslog-config-system-materializes.html
Changelog for 5.8.1 (v5-stable)
Version 5.8.1 [V5-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-05-19
- bugfix: invalid processing in QUEUE_FULL condition
If the the multi-submit interface was used and a QUEUE_FULL condition
occured, the failed message was properly destructed. However, the
rest of the input batch, if it existed, was not processed. So this
lead to potential loss of messages and a memory leak. The potential
loss of messages was IMHO minor, because they would have been dropped
in most cases due to the queue remaining full, but very few lucky ones
from the batch may have made it. Anyhow, this has now been changed so
that the rest of the batch is properly tried to be enqueued and, if
not possible, destructed. - new module mmsnmptrapd, a sample message modification module
This can be useful to reformat snmptrapd messages and also serves as
a sample for how to write message modification modules using the
output module interface. Note that we introduced this new
functionality directly into the stable release, as it does not
modify the core and as such cannot have any side-effects if it is
not used (and thus the risk is solely on users requiring that
functionality). - bugfix: rate-limiting inside imuxsock did not work 100% correct
reason was that a global config variable was invalidly accessed where a
listener variable should have been used.
Also performance-improved the case when rate limiting is turned off (this
is a very unintrusive change, thus done directly to the stable version). - bugfix: $myhostname not available in RainerScript (and no error message)
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233 - bugfix: memory and file descriptor leak in stream processing
Leaks could occur under some circumstances if the file stream handler
errored out during the open call. Among others, this could cause very
big memory leaks if there were a problem with unreadable disk queue
files. In regard to the memory leak, this
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=256 - bugfix: doc for impstats had wrong config statements
also, config statements were named a bit inconsistent, resolved that
problem by introducing an alias and only documenting the consistent
statements
Thanks to Marcin for bringing up this problem. - bugfix: IPv6-address could not be specified in omrelp
this was due to improper parsing of “:”
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250 - bugfix: TCP connection invalidly aborted when messages needed to be
discarded (due to QUEUE_FULL or similar problem) - bugfix: $LocalHostName was not honored under all circumstances
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=258 - bugfix(minor): improper template function call in syslogd.c
Changelog for 6.1.7 (v6-devel)
Version 6.1.7 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-04-15
- added log classification capabilities (via mmnormalize & tags)
- speeded up tcp forwarding by reducing number of API calls
this especially speeds up TLS processing - somewhat improved documentation index
- bugfix: enhanced imudp config processing code disabled due to wrong
merge (affected UDP realtime capabilities) - bugfix (kind of): memory leak with tcp reception epoll handler
This was an extremely unlikely leak and, if it happend, quite small.
Still it is better to handle this border case. - bugfix: IPv6-address could not be specified in omrelp
this was due to improper parsing of “:”
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250
Changelog for 5.8.0 (v5-stable)
Version 5.8.0 [V5-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-04-12
This is the new v5-stable branch, importing all feature from the 5.7.x versions. To see what has changed in regard to the previous v5-stable, check the Changelog for 5.7.x below.
- bugfix: race condition in deferred name resolution
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238
Special thanks to Marcin for his persistence in helping to solve this
bug. - bugfix: DA queue was never shutdown once it was started
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241
Changelog for 5.7.10 (v5-beta)
Version 5.7.10 [V5-BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-03-29
- bugfix: ompgsql did not work properly with ANSI SQL strings
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229 - bugfix: rsyslog did not build with –disable-regexp configure option
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243 - bugfix: PRI was invalid on Solaris for message from local log socket
- enhance: added $BOM system property to ease writing byte order masks
- bugfix: RFC5424 parser confused by empty structured data
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237 - bugfix: error return from strgen caused abort, now causes action to be
ignored (just like a failed filter) - new sample plugin for a strgen to generate sql statement consumable
by a database plugin - bugfix: strgen could not be used together with database outputs
because the sql/stdsql option could not be specified. This has been
solved by permitting the strgen to include the opton inside its name.
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=195
Changelog for 5.6.5 (v5-stable)
Version 5.6.5 [V5-STABLE] (rgerhards), 2011-03-22
- bugfix: failover did not work correctly if repeated msg reduction was on
affected directive was: $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended on - bugfix: omlibdbi did not use password from rsyslog.con
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=203 - bugfix(kind of): tell users that config graph can currently not be
generated
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232 - bugfix: discard action did not work under some circumstances
fixes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=217
(backport from 5.7.8)
Changelog for 5.7.9 (v5-beta)
Version 5.7.9 [V5-BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-03-16
- improved testbench
among others, life tests for ommysql (against a test database) have been added, valgrind-based testing enhanced, … - enhance: fallback *at runtime* to epoll_create if epoll_create1 is not available. Thanks to Michael Biebl for analysis and patch!
- bugfix: failover did not work correctly if repeated msg reduction was on
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236
affected directive was: $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended on - bugfix: minor memory leak in omlibdbi (< 1k per instance and run)
- bugfix: (regression) omhdfs did no longer compile
- bugfix: omlibdbi did not use password from rsyslog.conf
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=203