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author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2009-05-29 11:40:07 +0200 |
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committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2009-05-29 11:40:07 +0200 |
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@@ -1,5 +1,30 @@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Version 5.1.1 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2009-??-?? +Version 5.1.0 [DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2009-05-29 + +*********************************** NOTE ********************************** +The v5 versions of rsyslog feature a greatly redesigned queue engine. The +major theme for the v5 release is twofold: + +a) greatly improved performance +b) enable audit-grade processing + +Here, audit-grade processing means that rsyslog, if used together with +audit-grade transports and configured correctly, will never lose messages +that already have been acknowledged, not even in fatal failure cases like +sudden loss of power. + +Note that large parts of rsyslog's important core components have been +restructured to support these design goals. As such, early versions of +the engine will probably be less stable than the v3/v4 engine. + +Also note that the initial versions do not cover all and everything. As +usual, the code will evolve toward the final goal as version numbers +increase. +*********************************** NOTE ********************************** + +- redesigned queue engine so that it supports ultra-reliable operations + This resulted in a rewrite of large parts. The new capability can be + used to build audit-grade systems on the basis of rsyslog. - added $MainMsgQueueDequeueBatchSize and $ActionQueueDequeueBatchSize configuration directives - implemented a new transactional output module interface which provides |