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This is primarily a re-release of 7.6.6 because the patch for the PRI vulnerability was incomplete. Special thanks to “mancha” for notifying us and helping to get it right. For more info, please see: http://www.rsyslog.com/remote-syslog-pri-vulnerability-cve-2014-3683/ Packages are also already available in the package archives. ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-7-v7-stable/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, […]

We have just released 8.4.2 of the v8-stable branch. This is primarily a re-release of 8.4.2 because the patch for the PRI vulnerability was incomplete. Special thanks to “mancha” for notifying us and helping to get it right. For more info, please see: http://www.rsyslog.com/remote-syslog-pri-vulnerability-cve-2014-3683/ Packages are also already available in the package archives.. ChangeLog: changelog-for-v8-stable/ […]

This version adresses some bugs and a security issue. Please note that it fixes a potential remote DoS, which may happen for some (non-default) configurations. As such, users are highly encouraged to upgrade to this version. ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-6-v7-stable/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, Florian Riedl

We have just released 8.4.1 of the v8-stable branch. This is primarily a bug-fixing release, but provides one small enhancement, the so-called “bracketing mode” of impstats. It tells impstats to emit begin and end message before and after emitting stats. Please note that this releases also fixes a potential remote DoS, which may happen for […]

This released provides an important regression fix, which rendered 7.6.4 unusable, as selector line evaluation was incorrect. Users of 7.6.4 are highly advised to upgrade to this version. ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-5-v7-stable/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, Florian Riedl

This is a new release for the v7-stable branch. It contains a lot of bug fixes and patches. Several issues have been fixed, thus ensuring better stability and reliability. This is a recommended update for all v7 users. ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-4-v7-stable/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, Florian Riedl

A new rsyslog v8-stable has been released. It is not just the next iteration of 8.2, instead it will be a new feature release based on the latest 8.3 devel. So please welcome 8.4. Frequent followers may wonder why 8.4 is ready. Originally, we planned to release it after the summer break. The reason is […]

In the first part, we will explain the new RSYSLOG v8 engine, its motivation and its benefits. Learn, for example, why writing to Elasticsearch is much faster with the new engine. We will describe the tuning parameters vital for making best use of the new features. In the second part we will explain how to […]

We have just released 8.4.0 of the v8-stable branch. This release introduces the new stable version that inherits all the enhancements and improvements of rsyslog 8.3. Additionaly, the separated documentation is available as a tarball download on the download page. ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-4-0-v8-stable/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v8-stable/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, Florian Riedl

We have just released 8.3.4 of the v8-devel branch. This is a somewhat unexpected new 8.3 devel version: thanks to some sponsor, we could work on providing better parsers for Cisco IOS devices as well as some improvements to the general date parser. As we want to integrate this into 8.4, we have decided to […]