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0.12

4th August 2014

  • Fix non-ASCII but valid UTF-8 characters getting replaced with question marks by the Logstash gem (#22)
  • Fix zmq transport not working in Logstash due to ffi-rzmq version too old. Gem installation will now trigger update of the ffi-rzmq gems to the necessary versions (#20)
  • Fix broken syslog logging (#18)
  • Fix broken spool-size configuration setting (#17)
  • Fix compilation on Windows (#23)
  • Fix shutdown not working when publisher has pending payloads (#24)
  • Fix potential race condition issues in the ZMQ Logstash plugin
  • Implement ZMQ monitor and log when connections/disconnects happen
  • Move logging cmdline settings (such as log-to-syslog) to the configuration file and allow configuration of stdout logging and file logging as well as syslog logging (#15)
  • Remove support for Go 1.1 due to json.Marshal returning error InvalidUTF8Error on encountering an invalid sequence. Go 1.2 and above do not and replace invalid sequence with the Unicode replacement character
  • Various other minor tweaks and fixes

0.11

13th July 2014

  • Security fix: Ruby gem client (used by Logstash output plugin) did not verify certificate hostname
  • Fix edge case file rotation problems (#7)
  • Fix incorrect field population in events (#9)
  • Fix random hang when Log Courier loses connection to Logstash (#8)
  • Improve logging and make the level of detail configurable (#10)
  • Fix PING/PONG protocol errors when idle (#12)
  • Move spool-size and idle-timeout to the configuration file as "spool size" and "spool timeout"
  • Replace make selfsigned with a utility lc-tlscert that can generate self-signed certificates and the necessary log snippets like genkey did for ZMQ
  • Rename genkey to lc-curvekey for consistency
  • Various other minor tweaks and fixes

0.10

29th June 2014

  • Support for Go 1.3 (#3)
  • Configuration can be reloaded while log courier is running by sending the SIGHUP signal (*nix only)
  • Additional configuration files can be imported by the main configuration file using the new "includes" section which is an array of Fileglobs. (#5)
  • Added make selfsigned to allow quick generation of SSL certificates for testing
  • A "general" section has been added to the configuration file
  • The directory to store the .log-courier persistence file can now be configured under "general"/"persist directory".
  • How often the filesystem is examined for log file appearances or movements can now be configured under "general"/"prospect interval".
  • Fix gem build instructions (#6)
  • Fix instances where a file entry has multiple "fields" entries results in all fields having the same value as the first field. (#4)

0.9

14th June 2014

  • Restructure and tidy the project and implement new build tools
  • Rename to Log Courier
  • Implement an completely new test framework with even more tests
  • Introduce a new protocol and TLS transport layer that is faster on high latency links such as the internet
  • Implement support for a CurveZMQ transport to allow transmission of logs to multiple servers simultaneously at low latency.
  • Improve efficiency of the event spooler
  • Greatly improve the Logstash plugin
  • If a log file cannot be opened, only retry as long as the log file exists and not forever
  • Fix offset field on events to point to the start of the event, not the end
  • Enable comments inside the configuration file
  • Reduce unnecessary logging

Pre-release

The following are fixes present in the Driskell fork of Logstash Forwarder 0.3.1 which Log Courier builds upon.