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.
rsyslog 8.2.0 (v8-stable) released
This is the first release of the greatly improved version 8 of rsyslog. Large parts of the core engine have been rewritten in order to support even greater performance and newly things like global variable support in RainerScript. The new engine is the foundation for the next couple of years of rsyslog technology. As another major design feature, an interface for external plugins has been added. Version 8.2 supports external output plugins, but external message modification and input plugins are also schedule to appear soon.
With the release of version 8, 7.6 is being as officially supported stable. However, we will support 7.6 for some while. So there is no urgent need to upgrade to v8.
ChangeLog:
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-2-0-v8-stable/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v8-stable/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 8.2.0 (v8-stable)
Version 8.2.0 [v8-stable] 2014-04-02
This starts a new stable branch based on 8.1.6 plus the following changes:
- we now use doc from the rsyslog-doc project
As such, the ./doc subtree has been removed. Instead, a cache of the rsyslog-doc project’s files has been included in ./rsyslog-doc.tar.gz. Note that the exact distribution mode for the doc is still under discussion and may change in future releases. This was agreed upon on the rsyslog mailing list. For doc issues and corrections, be sure to work with the rsyslog-doc project. It is currently hosted at https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog-doc - add support for specifying the liblogging-stdlog channel spec
new global parameter “stdlog.channelspec” - add “
defaultnetstreamdrivercertfile” global variable to set a default for the certfile.
Thanks to Radu Gheorghe for the patch. - omelasticsearch: add new “usehttps” parameter for secured connections
Thanks to Radu Gheorghe for the patch. - “action resumed” message now also specifies module type which makes troubleshooting a bit easier. Note that we cannot output all the config details (like destination etc) as this would require much more elaborate code changes, which we at least do not like to do in the stable version.
- add capability to override GnuTLS path in build process
Thanks to Clayton Shotwell for the patch - better and more consistent action naming, action queues now always contain the word “queue” after the action name
- bugfix: ompipe did resume itself even when it was still in error
See: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/35
Thanks to github user schplat for reporting
Changelog for 7.4.0 (v7-stable)
Version 7.4.0 [v7.4-stable] 2013-06-06
This starts a new stable branch based on 7.3.15 plus the following changes:
- add –enable-cached-man-pages ./configure option
permits to build rsyslog on a system where rst2man is not installed. In that case, cached versions of the man pages are used (they were built during “make dist”, so they should be current for the version in question. - doc bugfix: ReadMode wrong in imfile doc, two values were swapped
Thanks to jokajak@gmail.com for mentioning this
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450 - imjournal: no longer do periodic wakeup
- bugfix: potential hang *in debug mode* on rsyslogd termination
This ONLY affected rsyslogd if it were running with debug output enabled. - bugfix: $template statement with multiple spaces lead to invalid tpl name
If multiple spaces were used in front of the template name, all but one of them became actually part of the template name. So $template a,”…” would be name ” a”, and as such “a” was not available, e.g. in
*.* /var/log/file;a
This is a legacy config problem. As it was unreported for many years, no backport of the fix to old versions will happen. This is a long-standing bug that was only recently reported by forum user mc-sim.
Reference: http://kb.monitorware.com/post23448.html - 0mq fixes; credits to Hongfei Cheng and Brian Knox