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We have just released 8.3.1 of the v8-devel branch. This release provides some improvements for external message modification modules, a module to rewrite message facility and severity as well as bug fixes. It is a recommended update for all v8.3 users. ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-1-v8-devel/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, Florian Riedl
Version 8.3.1 [v8-devel] 2014-04-24 external message modification interface now support modifying message PRI “jsonmesg” property will include uuid only if one was previously generated This is primarily a performance optimization. Whenever the message uuid is gotten, it is generated when not already present. As we used the regular setter, this means that always the uuid […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is the first release of rsyslog 7.6 in the v7-stable branch. Since 7.4 a lot of new functions have found their way into rsyslog. With 7.6 being the successor of the 7.5 development branch, everything that has been added there has now found its way into the stable version. The major additions consist of […]
This release offers some interesting features. It provides a new module called mmpstrucdata to parse RFC5424 structured data into json message properties. Also the default queue.size values have been altered to more suitable values. Omfwd and omfile received new parameters and we changed a bigger portion of the documentation to improve usability by linking relevant […]
Version 7.5.4 [devel] 2013-10-07 mmpstrucdata: new module to parse RFC5424 structured data into json message properties change main/ruleset queue defaults to be more enterprise-like new defaults are queue.size 100,000 max workers 2, worker activation after 40,000 msgs are queued, batch size 256. These settings are much more useful for enterprises and will not hurt low-end […]