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rsyslog -devel packages are being removed soon

If you use rsyslog’s devel packages on your system, you will receive errors soon. Be sure to read the complete posting to avoid trouble!

As part of rsyslog’s new release schedule and version naming, devel releases will no longer be named according to the “normal” numbering scheme. This also means that the previous “devel” branches will disappear, as git master branch now is the always-current devel version.

Keep on your mind that we previously had a release cycle of 3 to 9 month for a new feature to appear in a stable version. That was because new feature releases were only done when a complete devel turnaround was done, and relatively many new features were added. For this reason, some people opted to run devel versions in production, and thus needed specific tarballs (and packages) for them.

With the new six week release cycle, we get new features rather quickly into the stable builds. So it usually should be no problem to wait for the next stable to use that recently-implemented new feature. As such, there is no need any longer for special devel releases, and thus no need for devel tarballs and packages.

Well… almost. One thing we would like to have is a “daily devel version”. The idea is that if the testbench runs are OK, a new tarball and a set of packages is generated automatically and posted to a special archive. In general, that archive should receive an update once a day. So people really interested in the [b]leading edge can simply install from that daily package archive — and report bugs quickly, so helping the development process. Unfortunately, time is precious and we don’t know when and if we can setup the required automation. Most probably not before January 2015, and how it works out then needs to be seen.

In the interim, we will begin to delete the -devel packages. The old -devel tarballs will remain available, at least for the time being. The problem with -devel packages is that folks may have set their system to use the -devel repro. If we would just keep it as is, those systems would never again receive any updates, neither security-releated nor others, simply because -devel versions no longer exist in the way they were. That would pose a potentially big security risk. As such, we will delete the -devel content, and begin to do so early next week. If you use the -devel packages, be sure to switch the v8-stable instead.

rsyslog 8.5.0 (v8-devel) released

We have just released 8.5.0 of the v8-devel branch.

This begins the next v8 devel series. Most importantly, it contains a greatly refactored imfile, which now supports wildcards inside filenames. There are also some other improvements, as well as some bugfixes that are not yet included in the stable versions (this will happen soon with the next release).

For more details about using wildcards in imfile, please take a look at this presentation:

Using Wildcards with rsyslog’s File Monitor

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-5-0-v8-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 8.5.0 (v8-devel)

Version 8.5.0 [v8-stable] 2014-10-24

  • imfile greatly refactored and support for wildcards added
  • PRI-handling code refactored for more clarity and robustness
  • ommail: add support for RainerScript config system [action() object]
    This finally adds support for the new config style. Also, we now permit to set a constant subject text without the need to create a template for it.
  • refactored the auto-backgrounding method
    The code is now more robust and also offers possibilities for enhanced error reporting in the future. This is also assumed to fix some races where a system startup script hang due to “hanging” rsyslogd.
  • make gntls tcp syslog driver emit more error messages
    Messages previously emitted only to the debug log are now emitted as syslog error messages. It has shown that they contain information  helpful to the user for troubleshooting config issues. Note that this change is a bit experimental, as we are not sure if there are situations where large amounts of error messages may be emitted.
  • bugfix: imfile did not complain if configured file did not exist
    closes https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/137
  • bugfix: build failure on systems which don’t have json_tokener_errors
    Older versions of json-c need to use a different API (which don’t exists on newer versions, unfortunately…)
    Thanks to Thomas D. for reporting this problem.
  • imgssapi: log remote peer address in some error messages
    Thanks to Bodik for the patch.

rsyslog 8.3.5 (v8-devel) released

We have just released 8.3.5 of the v8-devel branch.

This is basically a maintenance release. It adds improved error output to omprog and a couple of patches were imported from the latest v7-stable (7.6.4).

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-5-v8-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 8.3.5 (v8-devel)

Version 8.3.5 [v8-devel] 2014-08-05omprog:

  • emit error message via syslog() if loading binary fails
    This happens after forking, so omprog has no longer access to rsyslog’s regular error reporting functions. Previously, this meant any error message was lost. Now it is emitted via regular syslog (which may end up in a different instance, if multiple instances run…)
  • couple of patches imported from v7-stable (7.6.4)

rsyslog 8.3.4 (v8-devel) released

We have just released 8.3.4 of the v8-devel branch.

This is a somewhat unexpected new 8.3 devel version: thanks to some sponsor, we could work on providing better parsers for Cisco IOS devices as well as some improvements to the general date parser. As we want to integrate this into 8.4, we have decided to release another 8.3 version. Please note that 8.4 stable is still immanent. This version also includes a number of bug fixes.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-4-v8-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 8.3.4 (v8-devel)

Version 8.3.4 [v8-devel] 2014-07-11

  • new pmciscoios parser supporting various Cisco IOS formats
  • RFC3164 timestamp parser now accepts timezones and subsecond resolution
    … at least for some common formats and where we could do so without running risk of breaking proper formats (or introducing regressions)
  • new parser config object — permits to define custom parser definitions
  • new tzinfo config object — permits to define time zone offsets
    This is a utility object that currently is being used by some parsers.
  • bugfix: mishandling of input modules not supporting new input instances
    If they did not support this, accidently the output module part of the module union was written, leading to unpredictable results. Note: all core modules do support this interface, but some contributed or very old ones do not.
  • bugfix: double-free when ruleset() parser parameters were used
    While unlikely, this could cause stability issues even after the config phase.

rsyslog 8.3.3 (v8-devel) released

We have just released 8.3.3 of the v8-devel branch.

This provides the capability to automatically close files (including dynafiles) after some inactivity timeout. It also makes some of the more exotic modules build under v8, which now supports the same set of output modules as v7 did.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-3-v8-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 8.3.3 (v8-devel)

Version 8.3.3 [v8-devel] 2014-05-26
  • unify input object naming
    imudp now supports “name” paramter, as other inputs do. “inputname” has been deprecated, but can still be used. Same applies to “appendport” subparamter”. Thanks to “Nick Syslog” for the suggestion.
  • made the missing (contributed) modules build under v8 [import from 8.2.2]
    Modules:

    • * mmrfc5424addhmac
    •   * omrabbitmq
    •   * omgssapi
    •   * omhdfs
    •   * omzmq3
  • added a cleanup process (janitor); permits to close omfile files after a timeout
  • make omgssapi build under v8.3 [import vom v8.2]
    note that we could do this to the stable, because there is NO regression chance at all: only omgssapi was changed, and this module did NOT work previously.
  • removed obsolete –disable-fsstnd configure option
    Thanks to Thomas D. for alerting us.
    Closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/72

rsyslog 8.3.2 (v8-devel) released

We have just released 8.3.2 of the v8-devel branch.

This is primarily a bug-fixing release, but it also adds the ability to extract parts of a timestamp via the property replacer and adds support for per-listener imrelp rulesets (thanks to bobthesecurityguy for the patch!).

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-2-v8-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

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