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@@ -1,4 +1,61 @@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 4.7.3 [v4-devel] (rgerhards), 2010-??-?? +- added omuxsock, which permits to write message to local Unix sockets + this is the counterpart to imuxsock, enabling fast local forwarding +- added imptcp, a simplified, Linux-specific and potentielly fast + syslog plain tcp input plugin (NOT supporting TLS!) +- bugfix: a couple of problems that imfile had on some platforms, namely + Ubuntu (not their fault, but occured there) +- bugfix: imfile utilizes 32 bit to track offset. Most importantly, + this problem can not experienced on Fedora 64 bit OS (which has + 64 bit long's!) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 4.7.2 [v4-devel] (rgerhards), 2010-05-03 +- bugfix: problems with atomic operations emulaton + replaced atomic operation emulation with new code. The previous code + seemed to have some issue and also limited concurrency severely. The + whole atomic operation emulation has been rewritten. +- added new $Sleep directive to hold processing for a couple of seconds + during startup +- bugfix: programname filter in ! configuration can not be reset + Thanks to Kiss Gabor for the patch. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 4.7.1 [v4-devel] (rgerhards), 2010-04-22 +- Solaris support much improved -- was not truely usable in 4.7.0 + Solaris is no longer supported in imklog, but rather there is a new + plugin imsolaris, which is used to pull local log sources on a Solaris + machine. +- testbench improvement: Java is no longer needed for testing tool creation +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 4.7.0 [v4-devel] (rgerhards), 2010-04-14 +- new: support for Solaris added (but not yet the Solaris door API) +- added function getenv() to RainerScript +- added new config option $InputUnixListenSocketCreatePath + to permit the auto-creation of pathes to additional log sockets. This + turns out to be useful if they reside on temporary file systems and + rsyslogd starts up before the daemons that create these sockets + (rsyslogd always creates the socket itself if it does not exist). +- added $LogRSyslogStatusMessages configuration directive + permitting to turn off rsyslog start/stop/HUP messages. See Debian + ticket http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=463793 +- added new config directive $omfileForceChown to (try to) fix some broken + system configs. + See ticket for details: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=150 +- added $EscapeControlCharacterTab config directive + Thanks to Jonathan Bond-Caron for the patch. +- added option to use unlimited-size select() calls + Thanks to varmjofekoj for the patch +- debugondemand mode caused backgrounding to fail - close to a bug, but I'd + consider the ability to background in this mode a new feature... +- bugfix (kind of): check if TCP connection is still alive if using TLS + Thanks to Jonathan Bond-Caron for the patch. +- imported changes from 4.5.7 and below +- bugfix: potential segfault when -p command line option was used + Thanks for varmojfekoj for pointing me at this bug. +- bugfix: potential segfaults during queue shutdown + (bugs require certain non-standard settings to appear) + Thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch [imported from 4.5.8] +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 4.6.5 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2010-??-?? - bugfix: a couple of problems that imfile had on some platforms, namely Ubuntu (not their fault, but occured there) @@ -31,12 +88,18 @@ Version 4.6.3 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2010-07-07 message-induced off-by-one error (potential segfault) (see 4.6.2) The analysis has been completed and a better fix been crafted and integrated. +- bugfix: the T/P/E config size specifiers did not work properly under + all 32-bit platforms +- bugfix: local unix system log socket was deleted even when it was + not configured - some doc fixes; incorrect config samples could cause confusion thanks to Anthony Edwards for pointing the problems out --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 4.6.2 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2010-03-26 - new feature: "." action type added to support writing files to relative pathes (this is primarily meant as a debug aid) +- added replacements for atomic instructions on systems that do not + support them. [backport of Stefen Sledz' patch for v5) - new feature: $OMFileAsyncWriting directive added it permits to specifiy if asynchronous writing should be done or not - bugfix(temporary): message-induced off-by-one error (potential segfault) |