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 8.3.0 (v8-devel) released
We have just released 8.3.0 of the v8-devel branch.
This opens the next iteration of the v8-devel branch. As its most important feature, this release offers the external plugin message modification interface and comes with a full sample of a credit card anonymizer in python.
ChangeLog:
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-0-v8-devel/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/
Feedback is *very much* appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 8.3.0 (v8-devel)
Version 8.3.0 [v8-devel] 2014-04-10
- new plugin for anonymizing credit card numbers
Thanks to Peter Slavov for providing the code. - external message modification modules are now supported
They are bound via the new native module “mmexternal”. Also, a sample skeleton for an external python message modification module has been added. - new $jsonmesg property with JSON representation of whole message object
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/19 - improved error message for invalid field extraction in string template
see also:
http://kb.monitorware.com/problem-with-field-based- extraction-t12299.html - fix build problems on Solaris
- NOTE: a json-c API that we begun to use requires the compiler to be in c99 mode. By default, we select it automatically. If you modify this and use gcc, be sure to include “-std=c99” in your compiler flags. This seems to be necessary only for older versions of gcc.
Introducing the rsyslog config builder tool
Wouldn’t it be great if we had an interactive tool that permitted it novices to build complex rsyslog configurations interactively? Without any need to understand the inner workings or even terminology? Indeed, that would not only be great, but in our opinion also remove a lot of pressure that we have on rsyslog’s documentation part.
In the light of this, we started to work on a tool called the “rsyslog configuration builder“. An initial preview goes life right now today and we invite everyone to play with it. The initial version is hopefully already useful for many cases. However, the primary intent is to gather community feedback, reactions and further suggestions.
The initial version has a restricted set of supported inputs and outputs, as well as other constructs. It works with rsyslog v7.6 and above. The tool can be used anonymously and configurations are kept during the session, with the session timeout being a couple of hours. So that should be a fair amount of time to build your config. For the future, we plan to permit saving the config when logged in into the site. That way, you can work multiple days on a single configuration.
We have many more enhancements on our mind, but first of all we would like to get your feedback. You can provide feedback any way you like, but we would be extremely happy if you post either to the rsyslog mailing list or create an issue in the rsyslog website’s github project.
rsyslog 8.2.0 (v8-stable) released
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
rsyslog 7.6.3 (v7-stable) released
This release offers a couple of bug-fixes and also supports better interaction with librelp 1.2.5, which in turn supports anonymous TLS on platforms like CENTOS/RHEL 6 where GnuTLS is too old and RELP TLS was completely disable previously.
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-3-v7-stable/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 7.6.3 (v7-stable)
Version 7.6.3 [v7.6-stable] 2014-03-27
- add capability to override GnuTLS path in build process
Thanks to Clayton Shotwell for the patch - support for librelp 1.2.5
Support new return states of librelp 1.2.5 to emit better error messages. For obvious reasons, librelp 1.2.5 is now required. - bugfix: ompipe used invalid default template
This is a regression from an old change (didn’t track it down precisely, but over a year ago). It used the Forwarding template instead of the file template (so we have a full syslog header). This fix corrects it back to previous behaviour, but new scripts that used the wrong format may now need to have the RSYSLOG_ForwardingFormat template explicitely be applied.
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/50 - bugfix: ompipe did emit many suspension messages for /dev/xconsole
(hopefully now) closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/35
When it was present, but nobody reading from it. The problem is the way the rsyslog v7 engine tries to resolve failures in outputs. It does some retries, and along those lines some state information gets lost and it is close to impossible to retain it. However, the actual root problem is that ompipe does not reliably detect if it is able to recover. The problem here is that it actually does not know this before it does an actual write. These two things together mess up the logic that suppresses invalid resumption/suspension messages (actually, the plugin switches state really that often). Nevertheless, the prime problem with /dev/xconsole (and probably most other pipes as well) is that it gets full. So I have now added code that checks, during resume processing, if the pipe is writable. If it is not, resume is deferred. That should address the case.
rsyslog 7.6.2 (v7-stable) released
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-2-v7-stable/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 7.6.2 (v7-stable)
Version 7.6.2 [v7.6-stable] 2014-03-17
- support for librelp 1.2.4
This was necessary due to the problems with librelp 1.2.3 API stability.
We now use the new native 1.2.4 APIs to learn about the state of librelp’s TLS support.
For obvious reasons, librelp 1.2.4 is now required.