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rsyslog 5.8.9 (v5-stable) released

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , , , ,

This is primarily a maintenance release. It also provides a new tool that permits the recovery of disk queues, when the queue information file (.qi) has been lost. Thanks to Kaiwang Chen for contributing this tool.

There was an important flaw in 5.8.8 that caused disk queue content to be lost after a shutdown and restart of rsyslogd. So if you run this version, an upgrade to 5.8.9 is highly suggested.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-8-9-v5-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-9-v5-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,

Tim Eifler

rsyslog 5.8.8 (v5-stable) released

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , , , , ,

This is a bug-fixing release. It fixes the wrong computed facility and severity in imklog and a problem with rsyslog aborting on startup if no binary to execute was configured for omprog.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-8-8-v5-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-8-v5-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,

Florian Riedl

rsyslog 5.8.7 (v5-stable) released

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , , ,

This is a bug-fixing release. The most important patches resolve instabilities with RFC5424 header fields and information loss when non-wellformed messages are submitted to the system log socket.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-5-8-7-v5-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-7-v5-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,

Tim Eifler

Changelog for 5.8.7 (v5-stable)

By adisconteamPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , ,

Version 5.8.7  [V5-stable] 2012-01-17

  • bugfix: instabilities when using RFC5424 header fields
    Thanks to Kaiwang Chen for the patch
  • bugfix: imuxsock did truncate part of received message if it did not contain a proper date. The truncation occured because we removed that part of the messages that was expected to be the date.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295
  • bugfix: potential abort after reading invalid X.509 certificate
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=290
    Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch
  • bugfix: stats counter were not properly initialized on creation FQDN hostname for multihomed host was not always set to the correct name if multiple aliases existed. Thanks to Tomas Heinreich for the patch.

rsyslog 6.2.0 (v6-stable) released

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in News, Release AnnouncementTagged , , , ,

This is the initial stable release of rsyslog v6. It is basically the last beta version plus some more fixes. This version provides functional and performance enhancements, for example the Hadoop (HDFS) support has been considerably speeded up by supporting batched insert mode. Also, TCP transmission overhead for TLS has been dramatically improved. TCP now also supports input worker thread pools. Most importantly, rsyslog now supports log normalization via liblognorm rule bases. This permits very high performance normalization of semantically equal messages from different devices (and thus in different syntaxes).

Note that config scoping, available in the beta versions, is NOT supported by v6-stable. This was decided because it would have been functionality equivalent to the new config language upcoming in v6.3 (already available as part of the devel version). As scoping was not available in any earlier versions, introducing it in v6.2 would have added, in the long term, just another method of doing some identicaly thing via the ugly old config language. This would have lead to user confusion and more complex than necessary code. If you are interested in the cleaner config language, we strongly encourage you to have a look at rsyslog 6.3.

With the arrival of the stable v6 version, version 4 will be retired and is no longer officially supported (but support is provided under maintenance contracts, of course).

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-6-2-0-v6-stable/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-2-0-v6-stable/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 6.2.0 (v6-stable)

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in ChangelogTagged , , , , ,

ChangeLog (from 6.1.12 to 6.2.0):

  • bugfix (kind of): removed numerical part from pri-text see v6 compatibility document for reasons
  • bugfix: race condition when extracting program name, APPNAME, structured data and PROCID (RFC5424 fields) could lead to invalid characters e.g. in dynamic file names or during forwarding (general malfunction of these fields in templates, mostly under heavy load)
  • bugfix: imuxsock did no longer ignore message-provided timestamp, if so configured (the *default*). Lead to no longer sub-second timestamps.
    closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=281
  • bugfix: omfile returns fatal error code for things that go really wrong previously, RS_RET_RESUME was returned, which lead to a loop inside the rule engine as omfile could not really recover.
  • bugfix: rsyslogd -v always said 64 atomics were not present
    thanks to mono_matsuko for the patch
  • bugfix: potential abort after reading invalid X.509 certificate closes:
    http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=290
    Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch
  • $Begin, $End, $StrictScoping directives have been removed as v6.4 will provide the same functionality in a far better way. So we do not want to clutter the code.
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