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RSyslog Windows Agent 8.1 Released

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Release Date: 2025-07-16

Build-IDs: Service 8.1.0.232, Client 8.1.0.321

Enhancements

  • Mail Action: Modernized SMTP logic, better session management, and enhanced error handling.
  • Event Log Monitor V2: Added microseconds support for EventLog timestamps to improve precision and RFC compliance.

Bugfixes

  • Mail Action: Improved Base64 encoding robustness and addressed silent email delivery issues.
  • Filter Engine: Fixed an issue where the REGEX Filter could cause the program to use more memory over time.
  • Event Log Processing: Fixed category cache key to include event ID for proper security event log handling.
  • Timestamp Processing: Resolved double conversion when using timestamp localization in property engine.

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RSyslog Windows Agent 8.0 Released

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Release Date: 2025-01-23

Build-IDs: Service 8.0.0.230, Client 8.0.0.320

Enhancements

  • DTLS Action: Added support for DTLS Action to enhance secure logging capabilities over the UDP protocol.
  • Property Engine: Added microseconds support to timestamps for improved precision (When parsing RFC 5424 timestamps).
  • OpenSSL: Updated OpenSSL library to a newer version and added TLS v1.3 compatibility testing.
  • RELP Action: Introduced custom output encoding options for improved flexibility.

Bugfixes

  • Syslog Action: Fixed memory leak in RFX5424 Syslog Header processing.
  • File Action: Improved handling for “LogRotation by time of the day” to prevent duplicate log rotations on the same day after restart.
  • Engine: Fixed invalid parameter issue during char-to-wchar_t conversion.

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RSyslog Windows Agent 7.5a Released

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Release Date: 2024-05-29

Build-IDs: Service 7.5.0.226, Client 7.4.0.315

Bugfixes

  • File Action: Fixed an issue with circular and segmented file logging when configured size was above 2GB.
  • Log Rotation: Fixed an issue with log rotation when Log rotation Size was above 2GB.
  • Log Rotation: Fixed unintended log rotation on configuration reload when Log rotation on Close was enabled.

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RSyslog Windows Agent 7.4 Released

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Release Date: 2023-06-21

Build-IDs: Service 7.4.0.223, Client 7.4.0.315

Bugfixes

  • Syslog Action: Fixed a very rare case where an Action could try to open **TCP connections** to the same target **multiple times simultaneously**. The handling has been hardened to avoid concurrent connection establishment retries for the same Action.
  • Syslog Action: Fixed error handling when **the** connection fails and Syslog Caching is enabled. If a syslog backup server is enabled, the action will now retry the primary server correctly again after syslog caching has been activated.
  • EventLog Monitor V2: Fixed an issue in XML-Stream Processing that could cause failure in processing an EventLog Message.
  • LogRotate: Corrected error reporting when the feature is not available **due to** licensing.
  • Network Core: **Enhanced stability** during closing connections.

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RSyslog Windows Agent 7.2a Released

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Release Date: 2022-03-03

Build-IDs: Service 7.2.0.219, Client 7.2.0.312

Bugfixes

  • EventLog Monitor V2: Fix an issue with events, that cannot be formatted properly.
  • EventLog Monitor V2: Fix loading enabled state for Event Channels when either Debug or Admin channels are enabled/disabled.
  • EventLog Monitor V2: Fix the default Channel enabled state for disabled channel types.

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RSyslog Windows Agent 7.2 Released

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Release Date: 2022-01-18

Build-IDs: Service 7.2.0.217, Client 7.2.0.310

Features

  • Syslog Service: Added configurable option to detect Year in RFC3164 Syslog Header. If enabled, the service will try to detect a Year after the usual RFC3164 Date Header.
  • Syslog Service: Added configurable message size limit for syslog tcp messages. The default is 1MB which is far more as defined in syslog rfcs.

Bugfixes

  • EventLog Monitor v2: Fix handling of empty Debug/analytic channels.
  • TLS: Fix a problem with X509 Certificate Checking (Server Side).
  • File Config: Fixed a problem loading big numbers (Signed/Unsigned).
  • Queue Engine: Add limit to queue full warnings/errors events  to avoid spamming the eventlog.
  • Engine: Increased stability.

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RSyslog Windows Agent 7.0 Released

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Release Date: 2021-03-09

Build-IDs: Service 7.0.0.213, Client 7.0.0.297

Features

  • Filter Engine: Add support to filter by IPv6 addresses.
  • Eventlog Monitor V2: Added support to for LogPoint SIEM JSON Format.
  • Eventlog Monitor V2: Added support for the following EventLog properties (if available):
    Providerguid, processed, threaded, version, opcode, eventtype, nxseverityvalue (required for Severity Mapping in LogPoint SIEM JSON Format)
  • Action Caching: Added support for caching / queuing in RELP Action when Action processing fails.
  • Filter Engine: Added support to store filter results when using the global Status Variable type filters.
  • Queue Engine: Added Warning/Error events which are generated when the queue gets full.
  • Librelp: Updated librelp to v1.8.0.
  • Openssl: Updated to version 1.1.1g.

Bugfixes

  • Filter Engine: Fixed SaveIntoProperty handling when using the Status Type Filter.
  • Queue Engine: Fixed an issue that caused an internal exception
    STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN when two TCP Syslog Sessions where closed at the same time.

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RSyslog Windows Agent 6.2c Released

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Release Date: 2021-01-28

Build-IDs: Service 6.2.0.210, Client 6.2.0.284

Bugfixes

  • Syslog Service: Fixed an parsing issue of the syslogtag (rfc5424 only) with malformed syslog headers.
  • Syslog Service: Fixed an issue where two nullbytes were appended to the rawsyslogmsg property.
  • EventLog Monitor V2: Fixed Unicode support when using JSON Output format.
  • IPv6: Fixed a conversion issue when a source was converted into a IPv6 address string.

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RSyslog Windows Agent 6.1 Released

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Release Date: 2020-01-31

Build-IDs: Service 6.1.0.205, Client 6.1.0.280

Features

  • Property engine: Added new static property %localhostname% which contains the local computer name.
  • Syslog Action: Fixed Syslog Version in RFC5424 Header to 1.

Bugfixes

  • EventLog Monitor V2: Fixed an issue losing the first record LastRecord was resetted.
  • EventLog Monitor V2: Fixed minor issues in new caching code.
  • Queue Engine: Fixed an issue in the Action retry logic which caused the same information to be reprocessed again.
  • Property Engine: Fixed an issue initializing the socket subsystem if no network action/service was used related to the toipv4address/toipv6address options.
  • Engine: Fixed multiple memory leaks when a name was resolvedto an IP address.

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