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@@ -1,6 +1,50 @@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Version 6.3.9 [DEVEL] 2012-04-?? +Version 6.3.12 [BETA] 2012-06-18 +- bugfix: $ActionName was not properly honored + Thanks to Abby Edwards for alerting us +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.11 [BETA] 2012-06-18 +- bugfix: expression-based filters with AND/OR could segfault + due to a problem with boolean shortcut operations. From the user's + perspective, the segfault is almost non-deterministic (it occurs when + a shortcut is used). + Thanks to Lars Peterson for providing the initial bug report and his + support in solving it. +- bugfix: "last message repeated n times" message was missing hostname + Thanks to Zdenek Salvet for finding this bug and to Bodik for reporting +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.10 [BETA] 2012-06-04 +- bugfix: delayble source could block action queue, even if there was + a disk queue associated with it. The root cause of this problem was + that it makes no sense to delay messages once they arrive in the + action queue - the "input" that is being held in that case is the main + queue worker, what makes no sense. + Thanks to Marcin for alerting us on this problem and providing + instructions to reproduce it. +- bugfix: invalid free in imptcp could lead to abort during startup +- bugfix: if debug message could end up in log file when forking + if rsyslog was set to auto-background (thus fork, the default) and debug + mode to stdout was enabled, debug messages ended up in the first log file + opened. Currently, stdout logging is completely disabled in forking mode + (but writing to the debug log file is still possible). This is a change + in behaviour, which is under review. If it causes problems to you, + please let us know. + Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch. +- bugfix: --enable-smcustbindcdr configure directive did not work + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330 + Thanks to Ultrabug for the patch. +- bugfix: made rsyslog compile when libestr ist not installed in /usr + Thanks to Miloslav Trmač for providing patches and suggestions +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.3.9 [BETA] 2012-05-22 +- bugfix: imtcp could cause hang during reception + this also applied to other users of core file tcpsrv.c, but imtcp was + by far the most prominent and widely-used, the rest rather exotic + (like imdiag) +- added capability to specify substrings for field extraction mode - added the "jsonf" property replacer option (and fieldname) +- bugfix: omudpspoof did not work correctly if no spoof hostname was + configured - bugfix: property replacer option "json" could lead to content loss message was truncated if escaping was necessary - bugfix: assigned ruleset was lost when using disk queues @@ -9,6 +53,26 @@ Version 6.3.9 [DEVEL] 2012-04-?? stored inside the disk queue. - bugfix/imuxsock: solving abort if hostname was not set; configured hostname was not used (both merge regressions) + -bugfix/omfile: template action parameter was not accepted + (and template name set to "??" if the parameter was used) + Thanks to Brian Knox for alerting us on this bug. +- bugfix: ommysql did not properly init/exit the mysql runtime library + this could lead to segfaults. Triggering condition: multiple action + instances using ommysql. Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for reporting this + problem and providing an initial patch (which my solution is based on, + I need to add more code to clean the mess up). +- bugfix: rsyslog did not terminate when delayable inputs were blocked + due to unvailable sources. Fixes: + http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299 + Thanks to Marcin M for bringing up this problem and Andre Lorbach + for helping to reproduce and fix it. +- added capability to specify substrings for field extraction mode +- bugfix: disk queue was not persisted on shutdown, regression of fix to + http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299 + The new code also handles the case of shutdown of blocking light and + full delayable sources somewhat smarter and permits, assuming sufficient + timouts, to persist message up to the max queue capacity. Also some nits + in debug instrumentation have been fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 6.3.8 [DEVEL] 2012-04-16 - added $PStatJSON directive to permit stats records in JSON format @@ -137,7 +201,39 @@ 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 6.2.1 [v6-stable], 2012-01-?? +Version 6.2.2 [v6-stable], 2012-06-13 +- build system improvements and spec file templates + Thanks to Abby Edwards for providing these enhancements +- bugfix: disk queue was not persisted on shutdown, regression of fix to + http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299 + The new code also handles the case of shutdown of blocking light and + full delayable sources somewhat smarter and permits, assuming sufficient + timouts, to persist message up to the max queue capacity. Also some nits + in debug instrumentation have been fixed. +- bugfix: --enable-smcustbindcdr configure directive did not work + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330 + Thanks to Ultrabug for the patch. +- add small delay (50ms) after sending shutdown message + There seem to be cases where the shutdown message is otherwise not + processed, not even on an idle system. Thanks to Marcin for + bringing this problem up. +- support for resolving huge groups + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310 + Thanks to Alec Warner for the patch +- bugfix: potential hang due to mutex deadlock + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=316 + Thanks to Andreas Piesk for reporting&analyzing this bug as well as + providing patches and other help in resolving it. +- bugfix: property PROCID empty instead of proper nilvalue if not present + If it is not present, it must have the nilvalue "-" as of RFC5424 + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332 + Thanks to John N for reporting this issue. +- bugfix: did not compile under solaris due to $uptime property code + For the time being, $uptime is not supported on Solaris +- bugfix: "last message repeated n times" message was missing hostname + Thanks to Zdenek Salvet for finding this bug and to Bodik for reporting +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 6.2.1 [v6-stable], 2012-05-10 - change plugin config interface to be compatible with pre-v6.2 system The functionality was already removed (because it is superseeded by the v6.3+ config language), but code was still present. I have now removed @@ -153,6 +249,17 @@ Version 6.2.1 [v6-stable], 2012-01-?? - bugfix: stopped DA queue was never processed after a restart due to a regression from statistics module - bugfix: memory leak in array passing output module mode +- bugfix: ommysql did not properly init/exit the mysql runtime library + this could lead to segfaults. Triggering condition: multiple action + instances using ommysql. Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for reporting this + problem and providing an initial patch (which my solution is based on, + I need to add more code to clean the mess up). +- bugfix: rsyslog did not terminate when delayable inputs were blocked + due to unvailable sources. Fixes: + http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299 + Thanks to Marcin M for bringing up this problem and Andre Lorbach + for helping to reproduce and fix it. +- bugfix/tcpflood: sending small test files did not work correctly --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 6.2.0 [v6-stable], 2012-01-09 - bugfix (kind of): removed numerical part from pri-text @@ -396,6 +503,50 @@ expected that interfaces, even new ones, break during the initial syslog plain tcp input plugin (NOT supporting TLS!) [ported from v4] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 5.9.8 [V5-BETA], 2012-05-?? +- bugfix: delayble source could block action queue, even if there was + a disk queue associated with it. The root cause of this problem was + that it makes no sense to delay messages once they arrive in the + action queue - the "input" that is being held in that case is the main + queue worker, what makes no sense. + Thanks to Marcin for alerting us on this problem and providing + instructions to reproduce it. +- bugfix: disk queue was not persisted on shutdown, regression of fix to + http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299 + The new code also handles the case of shutdown of blocking light and + full delayable sources somewhat smarter and permits, assuming sufficient + timouts, to persist message up to the max queue capacity. Also some nits + in debug instrumentation have been fixed. +- add small delay (50ms) after sending shutdown message + There seem to be cases where the shutdown message is otherwise not + processed, not even on an idle system. Thanks to Marcin for + bringing this problem up. +- support for resolving huge groups + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310 + Thanks to Alec Warner for the patch +- bugfix: potential hang due to mutex deadlock + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=316 + Thanks to Andreas Piesk for reporting&analyzing this bug as well as + providing patches and other help in resolving it. +- bugfix: property PROCID empty instead of proper nilvalue if not present + If it is not present, it must have the nilvalue "-" as of RFC5424 + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332 + Thanks to John N for reporting this issue. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 5.9.7 [V5-BETA], 2012-05-10 +- added capability to specify substrings for field extraction mode +- bugfix: ommysql did not properly init/exit the mysql runtime library + this could lead to segfaults. Triggering condition: multiple action + instances using ommysql. Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for reporting this + problem and providing an initial patch (which my solution is based on, + I need to add more code to clean the mess up). +- bugfix: rsyslog did not terminate when delayable inputs were blocked + due to unvailable sources. Fixes: + http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299 + Thanks to Marcin M for bringing up this problem and Andre Lorbach + for helping to reproduce and fix it. +- bugfix/tcpflood: sending small test files did not work correctly +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 5.9.6 [V5-BETA], 2012-04-12 - added configuration directives to customize queue light delay marks - permit size modifiers (k,m,g,...) in integer config parameters @@ -531,7 +682,70 @@ Version 5.9.0 [V5-DEVEL] (rgerhards), 2011-06-08 affected directive was: $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended on closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=236 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Version 5.8.11 [V5-stable] 2012-04-?? +Version 5.8.13 [V5-stable] 2012-06-?? +- bugfix: "last message repeated n times" message was missing hostname + Thanks to Zdenek Salvet for finding this bug and to Bodik for reporting +- bugfix "$PreserveFQDN on" was not honored in some modules + Thanks to bodik for reporting this bug. +- bugfix: randomized IP option header in omudpspoof caused problems + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=327 + Thanks to Rick Brown for helping to test out the patch. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 5.8.12 [V5-stable] 2012-06-06 +- add small delay (50ms) after sending shutdown message + There seem to be cases where the shutdown message is otherwise not + processed, not even on an idle system. Thanks to Marcin for + bringing this problem up. +- support for resolving huge groups + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310 + Thanks to Alec Warner for the patch +- bugfix: delayble source could block action queue, even if there was + a disk queue associated with it. The root cause of this problem was + that it makes no sense to delay messages once they arrive in the + action queue - the "input" that is being held in that case is the main + queue worker, what makes no sense. + Thanks to Marcin for alerting us on this problem and providing + instructions to reproduce it. +- bugfix: disk queue was not persisted on shutdown, regression of fix to + http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299 + The new code also handles the case of shutdown of blocking light and + full delayable sources somewhat smarter and permits, assuming sufficient + timouts, to persist message up to the max queue capacity. Also some nits + in debug instrumentation have been fixed. +- bugfix/omudpspoof: problems, including abort, happend when run on + multiple threads. Root cause is that libnet is not thread-safe. + omudpspoof now guards libnet calls with their own mutex. +- bugfix: if debug message could end up in log file when forking + if rsyslog was set to auto-background (thus fork, the default) and debug + mode to stdout was enabled, debug messages ended up in the first log file + opened. Currently, stdout logging is completely disabled in forking mode + (but writing to the debug log file is still possible). This is a change + in behaviour, which is under review. If it causes problems to you, + please let us know. + Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for the patch. +- bugfix/tcpflood: sending small test files did not work correctly +- bugfix: potential hang due to mutex deadlock + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=316 + Thanks to Andreas Piesk for reporting&analyzing this bug as well as + providing patches and other help in resolving it. +- bugfix: property PROCID empty instead of proper nilvalue if not present + If it is not present, it must have the nilvalue "-" as of RFC5424 + closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332 + Thanks to John N for reporting this issue. +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Version 5.8.11 [V5-stable] 2012-05-03 +- bugfix: ommysql did not properly init/exit the mysql runtime library + this could lead to segfaults. Triggering condition: multiple action + instances using ommysql. Thanks to Tomas Heinrich for reporting this + problem and providing an initial patch (which my solution is based on, + I need to add more code to clean the mess up). +- bugfix: rsyslog did not terminate when delayable inputs were blocked + due to unvailable sources. Fixes: + http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299 + Thanks to Marcin M for bringing up this problem and Andre Lorbach + for helping to reproduce and fix it. +- bugfix: active input in "light delay state" could block rsyslog + termination, at least for prolonged period of time - bugfix: imptcp input name could not be set config directive was accepted, but had no effect - bugfix: assigned ruleset was lost when using disk queues @@ -541,6 +755,10 @@ Version 5.8.11 [V5-stable] 2012-04-?? - bugfix: hostname was not requeried on HUP Thanks to Per Jessen for reporting this bug and Marius Tomaschewski for his help in testing the fix. +- bugfix: inside queue.c, some thread cancel states were not correctly + reset. While this is a bug, we assume it did have no practical effect + because the reset as it was done was set to the state the code actually + had at this point. But better fix this... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 5.8.10 [V5-stable] 2012-04-05 - bugfix: segfault on startup if $actionqueuefilename was missing for disk |