Changelog for 8.3.3 (v8-devel)
- unify input object naming
imudp now supports “name” paramter, as other inputs do. “inputname” has been deprecated, but can still be used. Same applies to “appendport” subparamter”. Thanks to “Nick Syslog” for the suggestion. - made the missing (contributed) modules build under v8 [import from 8.2.2]
Modules:- * mmrfc5424addhmac
- * omrabbitmq
- * omgssapi
- * omhdfs
- * omzmq3
- added a cleanup process (janitor); permits to close omfile files after a timeout
- make omgssapi build under v8.3 [import vom v8.2]
note that we could do this to the stable, because there is NO regression chance at all: only omgssapi was changed, and this module did NOT work previously. - removed obsolete –disable-fsstnd configure option
Thanks to Thomas D. for alerting us.
Closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/72
rsyslog 8.2.2 (v8-stable) released
We have just released 8.2.2 of the v8-stable branch.
This release allows to build the missing (contributed) modules under v8. Please note, that most of these modules did not yet receive real testing as we don’t have the necessary environments. We depend on users submitting error reports and helping out to iron out any issues that may arise.
Additionaly, the separated documentation is available as a tarball download on the download page.
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-2-2-v8-stable/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v8-stable/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 8.2.2 (v8-stable)
Version 8.2.2 [v8-stable] 2014-06-02
- made the missing (contributed) modules build under v8
Note that we could do this to the stable, because there is NO regression chance at all: only the modules themselves were changed, and they did NOT work at all previously. Please also note that most of these modules did not yet receive real testing. As we don’t have the necessary environments (easily enough available), we depend on users submitting error reports and helping to iron out any issues that may arise.
Modules:- mmrfc5424addhmac
- omrabbitmq
- omgssapi
- omhdfs
- omzmq3
rsyslog 8.3.2 (v8-devel) released
We have just released 8.3.2 of the v8-devel branch.
This is primarily a bug-fixing release, but it also adds the ability to extract parts of a timestamp via the property replacer and adds support for per-listener imrelp rulesets (thanks to bobthesecurityguy for the patch!).
ChangeLog:
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-2-v8-devel/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
rsyslog 8.3.1 (v8-devel) released
We have just released 8.3.1 of the v8-devel branch.
This release provides some improvements for external message modification modules, a module to rewrite message facility and severity as well as bug fixes. It is a recommended update for all v8.3 users.
ChangeLog:
http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-3-1-v8-devel/
Download:
http://www.rsyslog.com/download-v8-devel/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
Changelog for 8.3.1 (v8-devel)
Version 8.3.1 [v8-devel] 2014-04-24
- external message modification interface now support modifying message PRI
- “jsonmesg” property will include uuid only if one was previously generated
This is primarily a performance optimization. Whenever the message uuid is gotten, it is generated when not already present. As we used the regular setter, this means that always the uuid was generated, which is quite time-consuming. This has now been changed so that it only is generated if it already exists. That also matches more closly the semantics, as “jsonmesg” should not make modifications to the message.
Note that the same applies to “fulljson” passing mode for external plugins. - added plugin to rewrite message facility and/or severity
Name: fac-sever-rewrite.py - 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. - bugfix: using UUID property could cause segfault
- bugfix/mmexternal: memory leak
- bugfix: memory leak when using “jsonmesg” property
- bugfix: mmutf8fix did not detect two invalid sequences
Thanks to Axel Rau for the patch. - bugfix: build problems with lexer.l on some platforms
For some reason, the strdup() prototype and others are missing. I admit that I don’t know why, as this happens only in 8.3.0+ and there is no indication of changes to the affected files. In any case, we need to fix this, and the current solution works at least as an interim one.
rsyslog 8.2.1 (v8-stable) released
We have just released 8.2.1 of the v8-stable branch.
This release permits to build against json-c 0.12. Due to the ABI breckage, this is necessary. Json-c versions prior to 0.12 had security issues, so this is desirable. 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.
Additionaly, the doc is no longer shipped as part of the rsyslog tarball to allow de-coupled release cycles.
Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v8-stable/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
Best regards,
Florian Riedl
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.