rsyslog

Version 4.7.1 [v4-devel] (rgerhards), 2010-04-22

• Solaris support much improved — was not truely usable in 4.7.0
  Solaris is no longer supported in imklog, but rather there is a new plugin imsolaris, which is used to pull local log sources on a Solaris machine.

• testbench improvement: Java is no longer needed for testing tool creation
  

Version 4.7.0 [v4-devel] (rgerhards), 2010-04-14

• new: support for Solaris added (but not yet the Solaris door API)
• added function getenv() to RainerScript
• added new config option $InputUnixListenSocketCreatePath to permit the auto-creation of pathes to additional log sockets. This turns out to be useful if they reside on temporary file systems and rsyslogd starts up before the daemons that create these sockets (rsyslogd always creates the socket itself if it does not exist).
• added $LogRSyslogStatusMessages configuration directive permitting to turn off rsyslog start/stop/HUP messages.
  See Debian ticket http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463793
• added new config directive $omfileForceChown to (try to) fix some broken system configs.
  See ticket for details: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150
• added $EscapeControlCharacterTab config directive
  Thanks to Jonathan Bond-Caron for the patch.
• added option to use unlimited-size select() calls
  Thanks to varmjofekoj for the patch
• debugondemand mode caused backgrounding to fail – close to a bug, but I’d consider the ability to background in this mode a new feature…
• bugfix (kind of): check if TCP connection is still alive if using TLS
  Thanks to Jonathan Bond-Caron for the patch.
• imported changes from 4.5.7 and below
• bugfix: potential segfault when -p command line option was used
  Thanks for varmojfekoj for pointing me at this bug.
• bugfix: potential segfaults during queue shutdown (bugs require certain non-standard settings to appear)
  Thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch [imported from 4.5.8]

Version 5.5.3 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2010-04-09

• added basic but functional support for Solaris
• imported many bugfixes from 3.6.2/4.6.1 (see ChangeLog below!)
• added new property replacer option “date-rfc3164-buggyday” primarily to ease migration from syslog-ng. See property replacer doc for details.
• added capability to turn off standard LF delimiter in TCP server via new directive “$InputTCPServerDisableLFDelimiter on”
• bugfix: failed to compile on systems without epoll support
• bugfix: comment char (‘#’) in literal terminated script parsing and thus could not be used.
  but tracker: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=119 [merged in from v3.22.2]
• imported patches from 4.6.0:
  * improved testbench to contain samples for totally malformed messages which miss parts of the message content
  * bugfix: some malformed messages could lead to a missing LF inside files or some other missing parts of the template content.
  * bugfix: if a message ended immediately with a hostname, the hostname was mistakenly interpreted as TAG, and localhost be used as hostname