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Wouldn’t it be great if we had an interactive tool that permitted it novices to build complex rsyslog configurations interactively? Without any need to understand the inner workings or even terminology? Indeed, that would not only be great, but in our opinion also remove a lot of pressure that we have on rsyslog’s documentation part. In […]

This is the first release of the greatly improved version 8 of rsyslog. Large parts of the core engine have been rewritten in order to support even greater performance and newly things like global variable support in RainerScript. The new engine is the foundation for the next couple of years of rsyslog technology. As another […]

This release offers a couple of bug-fixes and also supports better interaction with librelp 1.2.5, which in turn supports anonymous TLS on platforms like CENTOS/RHEL 6 where GnuTLS is too old and RELP TLS was completely disable previously. ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-3-v7-stable/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, Florian Riedl

This version introduces the support for librelp 1.2.4, thus it it fixes a problem with librelp in the last release.   Note that now librelp 1.2.4 is required as we process it’s new error codes emitted when librelp does not support TLS.   ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-7-6-2-v7-stable/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/downloads/download-v7-stable/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, Florian […]

This version is the first bug-fixing release for 7.6. In addition to bugfixes, it also offers some new, unintrusive, features. Most importantly, the way action suspension and resumption messages can now be configured on a finger grain basis. The action naming has been improved and kept consistent and imjournal can now better handle invalid entries […]

We have just released 8.1.6 of the v8-devel branch. This is the release candidate for v8.2.0 stable. It contains a number if smaller enhancements as well as bug fixes. We plan to release 8.2.0 soon. So we would appreciate if you could report any bugs you find in that version. ChangeLog: http://www.rsyslog.com/changelog-for-8-1-6-v8-devel/ Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-8-1-6-v8-devel/ Feedback […]

We have just released 7.4.10 of the v7-stable branch. This is the final bug-fixing release for rsyslog 7.4. The new version will be 7.6. More detailed information is available in the ChangeLog. ChangeLog: Download: http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-7-4-10-v7-stable/ As always, feedback is appreciated. Best regards, Florian Riedl

This is the first release of rsyslog 7.6 in the v7-stable branch. Since 7.4 a lot of new functions have found their way into rsyslog. With 7.6 being the successor of the 7.5 development branch, everything that has been added there has now found its way into the stable version. The major additions consist of […]

Need to connect RSysLog to some destination for which no plugin yet exists? Do you know a little bit of scripting or programming? Than this presentation is for you. It’s fast-path to writing rsyslog plugins very, very quickly. Writing RSysLog Plugins in 2 Minutes from Rainer Gerhards

Want to make rsyslog talk to some not-yet-supported output? With v8 it’s extremly simple. This presentation contains everything you need to know about writing great plugins in ANY language (like perl or python). Writing External Rsyslog Plugins from Rainer Gerhards