7.4.0 – the new stable
new rsyslog 7.4.0 stable released
We just released rsyslog 7.4.0, a new stable release which replaces the 7.2 branch. After nine month of hard work, there are many exciting enhancements compared to 7.2, and I thought I give you a quick rundown of the more important new features. Note that while I list some “minor features” at the end of this posting, the list is not complete. I left out those things that are primarily of interest for smaller groups of users. So if you look for a specific feature not mentioned here, it may pay to look at the ChangeLog or post a question to the rsyslog mailing list.
With this release, the rsyslog project officially supports the 7.4 and 7.2 branches. If support for older versions is required, utilizing Adiscon’s professional services for rsyslog is recommended.
Note that I only list main headlines for each of the features. Follow links (where provided) to gain more in-depth information.
Security Package
- introduction of Linux-like rate-limiting for all inputs
- “Last message repeated n times” now done on a per-input basis; makes it much more useful AND increases processing speed.
- omjournal writes messages to the journal
- imjournal obtains messages including journal-specific meta data items from the journal
Performance Improvements
- Disk Queue Performance greatly improved
- DNS chache greatly improved and optimized
- omfile now supports fully async writing
- script optimizer now changes frequently-used long-running filters into equivalent quick ones when possible (this even affects some distros default configs and is a great performance saver)
Minor Features
- various plugins now support the new RainerScript based config language
- omlibdbi improvements, among them support for transactions
- ommysql now supports transactions
- improved omfile zip writing speed
- performance optimizations
- omelasticsearch improvements (bulk processing mode, local error file)
- omudpspoof now supports packets larger than 1472 by using fragmentation
- omrelp now supports session timeout
- contributed module (not project-supported) omrabbitmq was added
Changelog for 7.3.9 (v7-devel)
Version 7.3.9 [devel] 2013-03-27
- support for signing logs added
- imudp: now supports user-selectable inputname
- omlibdbi: now supports transaction interface
if recent enough lbdbi is present - imuxsock: add ability to NOT create/delete sockets during startup and
shutdown
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=259 - imfile: errors persisting state file are now reported
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=292 - imfile: now detects file change when rsyslog was inactive
Previosly, this case could not be detected, so if a file was overwritten
or rotated away while rsyslog was stopped, some data was missing. This
is now detected and the new file being forwarded right from the
beginning.
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228 - updated systemd files to match current systemd source
- bugfix: imudp scheduling parameters did affect main thread, not imudp
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=409 - bugfix: build problem on platforms without GLOB_NOMAGIC
- bugfix: build problems on non-Linux platforms
- bugfix: stdout/stderr were not closed on forking
but were closed when running in the forground – this was just reversed
of what it should be. This is a regression of a recent change.