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@@ -1,4 +1,53 @@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.5 [DEVEL] (rgerhards/al), 2011-??-?? +- imudp&imtcp now report error if no listener at all was defined + Thanks to Marcin for suggesting this error message. +- bugfix: potential misadressing in property replacer +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.4 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-08-02 +- added support for action() config object + * in rsyslog core engine + * in omfile + * in omusrmsg +- bugfix: omusrmsg format usr1,usr2 was no longer supported +- bugfix: misaddressing in config handler + In theory, can cause segfault, in practice this is extremely unlikely + Thanks to Marcin for alertig me. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.3 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-07-13 +- rsyslog.conf format: now parsed by RainerScript parser + this provides the necessary base for future enhancements as well as some + minor immediate ones. For details see: + http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/07/rsyslog-633-config-format-improvements.html +- performance of script-based filters notably increased +- removed compatibility mode as we expect people have adjusted their + confs by now +- added support for the ":omfile:" syntax for actions +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.2 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-07-06 +- added support for the ":omusrmsg:" syntax in configuring user messages +- systemd support: set stdout/stderr to null - thx to Lennart for the patch +- added support for obtaining timestamp for kernel message from message + If the kernel time-stamps messages, time is now take from that + timestamp instead of the system time when the message was read. This + provides much better accuracy. Thanks to Lennart Poettering for + suggesting this feature and his help during implementation. +- added support for obtaining timestamp from system for imuxsock + This permits to read the time a message was submitted to the system + log socket. Most importantly, this is provided in microsecond resolution. + So we are able to obtain high precision timestampis even for messages + that were - as is usual - not formatted with them. This also simplifies + things in regard to local time calculation in chroot environments. + Many thanks to Lennart Poettering for suggesting this feature, + providing some guidance on implementing it and coordinating getting the + necessary support into the Linux kernel. +- bugfix: timestamp was incorrectly calculated for timezones with minute + offset + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=271 +- bugfix: memory leak in imtcp & subsystems under some circumstances + This leak is tied to error conditions which lead to incorrect cleanup + of some data structures. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 6.1.12 [BETA] (al), 2011-??-?? - bugfix: potential misadressing in property replacer - bugfix: memcpy overflow can occur in allowed sender checkig @@ -39,6 +88,17 @@ Version 6.1.9 [BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-06-14 users may have had unreproducable aborts that were cause by this bug. - bugfix/improvement:$WorkDirectory now gracefully handles trailing slashes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.1 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-06-07 +- added a first implementation of a DNS name cache + this still has a couple of weaknesses, like no expiration of entries, + suboptimal algorithms -- but it should perform much better than + what we had previously. Implementation will be improved based on + feedback during the next couple of releases +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.0 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-06-01 +- introduced new config system + http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/06/new-rsyslog-config-system-materializes.html +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 6.1.9 [BETA] (rgerhards), 2011-06-14 - bugfix: memory leak in imtcp & subsystems under some circumstances This leak is tied to error conditions which lead to incorrect cleanup @@ -65,6 +125,13 @@ Version 6.1.7 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-04-15 - bugfix: IPv6-address could not be specified in omrelp this was due to improper parsing of ":" closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250 +- bugfix: do not open files with full privileges, if privs will be dropped + This make the privilege drop code more bulletproof, but breaks Ubuntu's + work-around for log files created by external programs with the wrong + user and/or group. Note that it was long said that this "functionality" + would break once we go for serious privilege drop code, so hopefully + nobody still depends on it (and, if so, they lost...). +- bugfix: pipes not opened in full priv mode when privs are to be dropped --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 6.1.6 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-03-14 - enhanced omhdfs to support batching mode. This permits to increase @@ -210,8 +277,69 @@ expected that interfaces, even new ones, break during the initial syslog plain tcp input plugin (NOT supporting TLS!) [ported from v4] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Version 5.9.0 [V5-DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-03-?? +Version 5.9.2 [V5-DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-07-11 +- systemd support: set stdout/stderr to null - thx to Lennart for the patch +- added support for the ":omusrmsg:" syntax in configuring user messages +- added support for the ":omfile:" syntax for actions +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 5.9.1 [V5-DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-06-30 +- added support for obtaining timestamp for kernel message from message + If the kernel time-stamps messages, time is now take from that + timestamp instead of the system time when the message was read. This + provides much better accuracy. Thanks to Lennart Poettering for + suggesting this feature and his help during implementation. +- added support for obtaining timestamp from system for imuxsock + This permits to read the time a message was submitted to the system + log socket. Most importantly, this is provided in microsecond resolution. + So we are able to obtain high precision timestampis even for messages + that were - as is usual - not formatted with them. This also simplifies + things in regard to local time calculation in chroot environments. + Many thanks to Lennart Poettering for suggesting this feature, + providing some guidance on implementing it and coordinating getting the + necessary support into the Linux kernel. +- bugfix: timestamp was incorrectly calculated for timezones with minute + offset + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=271 +- bugfix: problems in failover action handling + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=270 + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254 +- bugfix: mutex was invalidly left unlocked during action processing + At least one case where this can occur is during thread shutdown, which + may be initiated by lower activity. In most cases, this is quite + unlikely to happen. However, if it does, data structures may be + corrupted which could lead to fatal failure and segfault. I detected + this via a testbench test, not a user report. But I assume that some + users may have had unreproducable aborts that were cause by this bug. +- bugfix: memory leak in imtcp & subsystems under some circumstances + This leak is tied to error conditions which lead to incorrect cleanup + of some data structures. [backport from v6] +- bugfix/improvement:$WorkDirectory now gracefully handles trailing slashes +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 5.9.0 [V5-DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-06-08 +- imfile: added $InputFileMaxLinesAtOnce directive +- enhanced imfile to support input batching +- added capability for imtcp and imptcp to activate keep-alive packets + at the socket layer. This has not been added to imttcp, as the latter is + only an experimental module, and one which did not prove to be useful. + reference: http://kb.monitorware.com/post20791.html +- added support to control KEEPALIVE settings in imptcp + this has not yet been added to imtcp, but could be done on request. +- $ActionName is now also used for naming of queues in impstats + as well as in the debug output +- bugfix: do not open files with full privileges, if privs will be dropped + This make the privilege drop code more bulletproof, but breaks Ubuntu's + work-around for log files created by external programs with the wrong + user and/or group. Note that it was long said that this "functionality" + would break once we go for serious privilege drop code, so hopefully + nobody still depends on it (and, if so, they lost...). +- bugfix: pipes not opened in full priv mode when privs are to be dropped - this begins a new devel branch for v5 +- better handling of queue i/o errors in disk queues. This is kind of a + bugfix, but a very intrusive one, this it goes into the devel version + first. Right now, "file not found" is handled and leads to the new + emergency mode, in which disk action is stopped and the queue run + in direct mode. An error message is emited if this happens. +- added support for user-level PRI provided via systemd - added new config directive $InputTCPFlowControl to select if tcp received messages shall be flagged as light delayable or not. - enhanced omhdfs to support batching mode. This permits to increase @@ -241,7 +369,7 @@ Version 5.8.4 [V5-stable] (al), 2011-08-10 Version 5.8.3 [V5-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-07-11 - systemd support: set stdout/stderr to null - thx to Lennart for the patch - added support for the ":omusrmsg:" syntax in configuring user messages -- added support for the ":omfile:" syntax in configuring user messages +- added support for the ":omfile:" syntax for actions Note: previous outchannel syntax will generate a warning message. This may be surprising to some users, but it is quite urgent to alert them of the new syntax as v6 can no longer support the previous one. @@ -529,6 +657,8 @@ Version 5.6.2 [V5-STABLE] (rgerhards), 2010-11-30 - added the $InputFilePersistStateInterval config directive to imfile - changed imfile so that the state file is never deleted (makes imfile more robust in regard to fatal failures) +- bugfix: a slightly more informative error message when a TCP + connections is aborted --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 5.6.1 [V5-STABLE] (rgerhards), 2010-11-24 - bugfix(important): problem in TLS handling could cause rsyslog to loop @@ -1100,7 +1230,7 @@ Version 4.6.8 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-??-?? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 4.6.7 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-07-11 - added support for the ":omusrmsg:" syntax in configuring user messages -- added support for the ":omfile:" syntax in configuring user messages +- added support for the ":omfile:" syntax for actions --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 4.6.6 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2011-06-24 - bugfix: memory leak in imtcp & subsystems under some circumstances |