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rsyslog 8.2.0 (v8-stable) released

By Adiscon SupportPosted on Posted in News, Release Announcement, Top NewsTagged , , , , , , , , , ,
This is the first release of the greatly improved version 8 of rsyslog. Large parts of the core engine have been rewritten in order to support even greater performance and newly things like global variable support in RainerScript. The new engine is the foundation for the next couple of years of rsyslog technology. As another major design feature, an interface for external plugins has been added. Version 8.2 supports external output plugins, but external message modification and input plugins are also schedule to appear soon.
With the release of version 8, 7.6 is being as officially supported stable. However, we will support 7.6 for some while. So there is no urgent need to upgrade to v8.
ChangeLog:

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)

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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 8.1.6 (v8-devel) released

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

We have just released 8.1.6 of the v8-devel branch.

This is the release candidate for v8.2.0 stable. It contains a number if smaller enhancements as well as bug fixes. We plan to release 8.2.0 soon. So we would appreciate if you could report any bugs you find in that version.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-1-6-v8-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-8-1-6-v8-devel/

Feedback is *very much* appreciated.

Best regards,
Tim Eifler

rsyslog 8.1.5 (v8-devel) released

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

We have just released 8.1.5 of the v8-devel branch. This release offers some important bug fixes and an enhanced imfile. It now supports inotify and has no longer a fixed limit on the number of files that can be monitored. Note that inotify must be enabled. By default, the previous polling mode is used. For details see parameter “mode” in the doc: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/imfile.html
ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-1-5-v8-devel/
Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-8-1-5-v8-devel/

Feedback is *very much* appreciated.

Best regards, Florian Riedl

Changelog for 8.1.5 (v8-devel)

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Version 8.1.5 [devel] 2014-01-24

  • imfile now supports inotify (but must be explicitely turned on)
  • imfile no longer has a limit on number of monitored files
  • added ProcessInternalMessages global system parameter
    This permits to inject rsyslog status messages into *another* main syslogd or the journal.
  • new dependency: liblogging-stdlog (for submitting to external logger)
  • bugfix: imuxsock input parameters were not accepted due to copy&paste error. Thanks to Andy Goldstein for the fix.

rsyslog 8.1.4 (v8-devel) released

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

We have just released 8.1.4 of the v8-devel branch.

This release adds the capability to set a variable based on a template. It also adds KEEPALIVE support to the RELP modules (which now require librelp 1.2.2+ for this reason). It also adds some usability enhancements and bug fixes.

Note that this release can be considered a “normal” devel version, with moderate risk associated to it. Experience in the past weeks suggest so. Special thanks to Pavel Levshin for all his work and tests. Still note that there is a considerably higher risk running the devel version than the stable one.

ChangeLog:

http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-1-4-v8-devel/

Download:

http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-8-1-4-v8-devel/

Feedback is *very much* appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl

Changelog for 8.1.4 (v8-devel)

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Version 8.1.4 [devel] 2014-01-10

  • add exec_template() RainerScript function
  • imrelp: support for TCP KEEPALIVE added
  • bumped librelp dependency to 1.2.2 to support new KEEPALIVE feature
  • Add directives for numerically specifying GIDs/UIDs
    The already present directives (FileOwner, FileGroup, DirOwner, DirGroup) translate names to numerical IDs, which depends on the user information being available during rsyslog’s startup. This can fail if the information is obtained over a network or from a service such as SSSD. The new directives provide a way to specify the numerical IDs directly and bypass the lookup.
    Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch.
  • bugfix: action commitTransaction() processing did not properly handle suspended actions
  • bugfix: omelasticsearch fail.es stats counter was improperly maitained
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