- update to rsyslog 8.4.1 [v8-stable] 2014-09-30 (bnc#897262)
- imudp: add for bracketing mode, which makes parsing stats easier
- permit at-sign in variable names
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/110
- bugfix: fix syntax error in anon_cc_numbers.py script
Thanks to github user anthcourtney for the patch.
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/109
- bugfix: ompgsql: don't loose uncomitted data on retry
Thanks to Jared Johnson and Axel Rau for the patch.
- bugfix: imfile: if a state file for a different file name was set,
that different file (name) was monitored instead of the configured
one. Now, the state file is deleted and the correct file monitored.
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/103
- bugfix: omudpspoof: source port was invalid
Thanks to Pavel Levshin for the patch
- bugfix: build failure on systems which don't have json_tokener_errors
Older versions of json-c need to use a different API (which don't exists
on newer versions, unfortunately...)
Thanks to Thomas D. for reporting this problem.
- bugfix: omelasticsearch does not work with broken/changed ES 1.0+ API
closes: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/104
- bugfix: mmanon did not properly anonymize IP addresses starting with '9'
Thanks to defa-at-so36.net for reporting this problem.
closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529
- bugfix: build problems on SuSe Linux
Thanks Andreas Stieger for the patch
- bugfix: omelasticsearch error file did not work correctly on ES 1.0+
due to a breaking change in the ElasticSearch API.
see also: https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/104
- bugfix: potential abort when a message with PRI > 191 was processed
if the "pri-text" property was used in active templates, this could
be abused to a remote denial of service from permitted senders
see also: CVE-2014-3634
- removed patches obsoleted by this version
- adopted patch for modified rsyslog.service