Version 8.9.0 [v8-stable] 2015-04-07
- omprog: add option "hup.forward" to forwards HUP to external plugins
- imuxsock: added capability to use regular parser chain
- 0mq: improvements in input and output modules
- imtcp: add support for ip based bind for imtcp -> param "address"
- bugfix: MsgDeserialize out of sync with MsgSerialize for StrucData
- bugfix imfile: partial data loss, especially in readMode != 0
- bugfix: potential large memory consumption with failed actions
- bugfix: omudpspoof: invalid default send template in RainerScript format
- bugfix: size-based legacy config statements did not work properly
- build system: added option --without-valgrind-testbench
- rsyslogd: fix misleading typos in error messages
Version 8.8.0 [v8-stable] 2015-02-24
- omkafka: add support for dynamic topics and auto partitioning
- imtcp/imptcp: support for broken Cisco ASA TCP syslog framing
- omfwd: more detailled error messages in case of UDP send error
- TLS syslog: enable capability to turn on GnuTLS debug logging
- bugfix: $AbortOnUncleanConfig did not work
- improve rsyslogd -v output and error message with meta information
version number is now contained in error message and build platform in
version output
- bugfix imtcp: octet-counted framing cannot be turned off
- bugfix: build problems on Illuminos
- bugfix: invalid data size for iMaxLine global property
- bugfix: negative values for maxMessageSize global parameter were permitted
- add message metadata "system" to msg object
this permits to store metadata alongside the message
- imfile: add support for "filename" metadata
this is useful in cases where wildcards are used
- imptcp: make stats counter names consistent with what imudp, imtcp uses
- added new module "omkafka" to support writing to Apache Kafka
- omfwd: add new "udp.senddelay" parameter
- mmnormalize enhancements
- RainerScript "foreach" iterator and array reading support
- now requires liblognorm >= 1.0.2
- add support for systemd >= 209 library names
- BSD "ntp" facility (value 12) is now also supported in filter
- bugfix: global(localHostName="xxx") was not respected in all modules
- bugfix: emit correct error message on config-file-not-found
- bugfix: impstats emitted invalid JSON format (if JSON was selected)
- bugfix: (small) memory leak in omfile's outchannel code
- bugfix: imuxsock did not deactivate some code not supported by platform
Version 8.6.0 [v8-stable] 2014-12-02
- configuration-setting rsyslogd command line options deprecated
- new and enhanced plugins for 0mq. These are currently experimantal.
- empty rulesets have been permitted. They no longer raise a syntax error.
- add parameter -N3 to enable config check of partial config file
- rsyslogd -e option has finally been removed
- testbench improvements
- testbench is now by default disabled
- add new RainerScript functions warp() and replace()
- mmnormalize can now also work on a variable
- new property date options for day ordinal and week number
- remove --enable-zlib configure option, we always require it
- slight source-tree restructuring: contributed modules are now in their
own ./contrib directory
- bugfix: imudp makes rsyslog hang on shutdown when more than 1 thread used
- bugfix: not all files closed on auto-backgrounding startup
- bugfix: typo in queue configuration parameter made parameter unusable
- bugfix: unitialized buffer off-by-one error in hostname generation
- bugfix imuxsock: possible segfault when SysSock.Use="off"
- bugfix: RainerScript: invalid ruleset names were accepted during ruleset
defintion, but could of course not be used when e.g. calling a ruleset.
- bugfix: some module entry points were not called for all modules callbacks
like endCnfLoad() were primarily being called for input modules. This has
been corrected. Note that this bugfix has some regression potential.
- bugfix omlibdbi: connection was taken down in wrong thread
- imttcp was removed because it was an incompleted experimental module
- pmrfc3164sd because it was a custom module nobody used
- omoracle was removed because it was orphaned and did not build/work
for quite some years and nobody was interested in fixing it
Version 8.5.0 [v8-stable] 2014-10-24
- imfile greatly refactored and support for wildcards added
- PRI-handling code refactored for more clarity and robustness
- ommail: add support for RainerScript config system [action() object]
- refactored the auto-backgrounding method
- make gntls tcp syslog driver emit more error messages
- bugfix: imfile did not complain if configured file did not exist
- bugfix: build failure on systems which don't have json_tokener_errors
- imgssapi: log remote peer address in some error messages
Version 8.4.2 [v8-stable] 2014-10-02
- bugfix: the fix for CVE-2014-3634 did not handle all cases. This is
corrected now. see also: CVE-2014-3683
- fixed a build problem on some platforms. Thanks to Olaf for the patch
- behaviour change: "msg" of messages with invalid PRI set to "rawmsg"
When the PRI is invalid, the rest of the header cannot be valid. So
we move all of it to MSG and do not try to parse it out. Note that
this is not directly related to the security issue but rather done
because it makes most sense.
Version 8.4.1 [v8-stable] 2014-09-30
- imudp: add for bracketing mode, which makes parsing stats easier
- permit at-sign in variable names
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/110
- bugfix: fix syntax error in anon_cc_numbers.py script
Thanks to github user anthcourtney for the patch.
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/109
- bugfix: ompgsql: don't loose uncomitted data on retry
Thanks to Jared Johnson and Axel Rau for the patch.
- bugfix: imfile: if a state file for a different file name was set,
that different file (name) was monitored instead of the configured
one. Now, the state file is deleted and the correct file monitored.
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/103
- bugfix: omudpspoof: source port was invalid
Thanks to Pavel Levshin for the patch
- bugfix: build failure on systems which don't have json_tokener_errors
Older versions of json-c need to use a different API (which don't
exists on newer versions, unfortunately...)
Thanks to Thomas D. for reporting this problem.
- bugfix: omelasticsearch does not work with broken/changed ES 1.0+ API
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/104
- bugfix: mmanon did not properly anonymize IP addresses starting with '9'
Thanks to defa-at-so36.net for reporting this problem.
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529
- bugfix: build problems on SuSe Linux
Thanks Andreas Stieger for the patch
- bugfix: omelasticsearch error file did not work correctly on ES 1.0+
due to a breaking change in the ElasticSearch API.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/104
- bugfix: potential abort when a message with PRI > 191 was processed
if the "pri-text" property was used in active templates, this could be
abused to a remote denial of service from permitted senders
see also: CVE-2014-3634
Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL,
PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, syslog/tcp, fine grain
output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations
and the ability to filter on any message part. It is quite
compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop-in
replacement.
