rsyslog 5.8.13 (v5-stable) released We just released 5.8.13 of the v5-stable branch. This is primarily a maintenance release. It includes several bugfixes for potential aborts or DA queues as well as other fixes. For more details, please review the ChangeLog. This is the last release of 5.8.x to get the latest patches into this stable version. Soon we will release 5.10.1 which should be the version to be used if you are following the stable releases. ChangeLog: bugfix: DA queue could cause abort 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. bugfix: potential abort if output plugin logged message during shutdown note that none of the rsyslog-provided plugins does this Thanks to bodik and Rohit Prasad for alerting us on this bug and analyzing it. fixes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347 bugfix: multiple main queues with same queue file name was not detected. This lead to queue file corruption. While the root cause is a config error, it is a bug that this important and hard to find config error was not detected by rsyslog. http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-5-8-13-v5-stable/ ---- rsyslog 6.4.0 (v6-stable) released This is the first version of the 6.4.x stable branch. It inherits all patches that were introduced in the 6.3.x beta branch. It is the new successor of the 6.2.x stable branch. As of now, the 6.3.x beta is finished as well. http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-6-4-0-v6-stable/ Reproducible: Always
rsyslog 7.2.0 (v7-stable) released We are proud to announce the first stable version of the v7 branch. It contains only minor bug fixes in addition to the latest beta. With that version, a full structured-logging/lumberjack enabled version is now available. For the top 5 advantages of rsyslog v7, please see http://www.rsyslog.com/main-advantages-of-rsyslog-v7-vs-v5/ With this release, version 5 of rsyslog becomes legacy and is no longer supported by the rsyslog project. However, rsyslog v5 continues to be supported as part of Adiscon’s professional services for rsyslog, please see http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/enterprise-support/ We would also like to point you to Rainer’s blog, where he describes the importance of this release in more detail. The relationship to v6 is also clarified. Please see http://blog.gerhards.net/2012/10/new-v7v6-stable-v5-now-legacy.html
un-CC'ing myself since I stepped down as co-maintainer of rsyslog
Checking in to say that I know I'm slacking on this package, I'll do my best. It's the next package I will mass bug-fix on my todo list.
It is now done ! +*rsyslog-7.2.2 (20 Nov 2012) +*rsyslog-6.6.0 (20 Nov 2012) +*rsyslog-5.10.1 (20 Nov 2012) + + 20 Nov 2012; Ultrabug <ultrabug@gentoo.org> + +files/6-stable/rsyslog-6.6.0-fix-runtime.patch, + +files/7-stable/rsyslog.confd, +files/7-stable/rsyslog.initd, + +files/7-stable/rsyslog.logrotate, +files/7-stable/rsyslog-gentoo.conf, + +rsyslog-5.10.1.ebuild, +rsyslog-6.6.0.ebuild, +rsyslog-7.2.2.ebuild: + Version bump, new 7-stable branch, fix #433595 +
