chef/cookbooks/rsyslog/CHANGELOG.md

rsyslog Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the rsyslog cookbook.

v.2.0.0 (2015-05-18) Note: This version includes several breaking changes for Ubuntu users. Be sure to take care when deploying these changes to production systems.

• 49-relp.conf now properly uses the list of servers discovered in the client recipe
• Fixed a typo that prevented file-input.conf from properly templating
• Added allow_non_local attribute to allow non-local messages. This defaults to false, which preserves the previous functionality
• The rsyslog directory permissions are now properly set using the user/group attributes instead of root/root
• Properly drop permissions on Ubuntu systems to syslog/syslog. Introduces 2 new attributes to control the user/group: priv_user and priv_group
• Remove logging to /dev/xconsole in 50-default.conf on Ubuntu systems. This is generally not something you'd want to do and produces error messages at startup.

v.1.15.0 (2015-02-23)

• Change minimum supported Fedora release to 20 to align with the Fedora product lifecycle
• Add supports CentOS to metadata
• Update Rubocop and Test Kitchen dependencies to the latest versions
• Update Chefspec to 4.0
• Fix CentOS 5 support in the Kitchen config
• Fix rsyslog service notification in the file_input LWRP

v.1.14.0 (2015-01-30)

• Don't attempt to use journald on Amazon Linux since Amazon Linux doesn't use systemd
• Fixed setting bad permissions on the working directory by using the rsyslog user/group variables.
• Fixed bad variable in the 49-relp.conf template that prevented Chef converges from completing.
• Removed the 'reload' action from the rsyslog service as newer rsyslog releases don't support reload.
• Updated Chefspecs to remove deprecation warnings and added additional tests.
• Removed node name from the comment block in the config files.
• Added a new file_input LWRP for defining configs.
• Added support for chef solo search cookbook.

v1.13.0 (2014-11-25)

• Rsyslog's working directory is now an attribute and is set to the appropriate directory on RHEL based distros
• The working directory is now 0700 vs 0755 for additional security
• Add the ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace directive with a default of 1GB to prevent out of disk events during large buffering
• Updated RHEL / Fedora facilities to match those shipped by the distros
• Updated modules to match those used by journald (systemd) on Fedora 19+ and CentOS 7
• Added an attribute additional_directives to pass a hash of configs. This is currently only being used to pass directives necessary for journald support on RHEL 7 / Fedora 19+
• Added basic SUSE support
• Fixed logic that prevented Ubuntu from properly dropping privileges in Ubuntu >= 11.04
• Removed references to rsyslog v3 in the config template
• Added a chefignore file
• Updated Gemfile with newer releases of Test Kitchen, Rubocop, and Berkshelf
• Added Fedora 20, Debian 6/7, CentOS 7, and Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 to the Test Kitchen config
• Removed an attribute that was in the Readme twice
• Updated Travis to Ruby 2.1.1 to better match Chef 12
• Updated the Berksfile to point to Supermarket
• Refactored the specs to be more dry

v1.12.2 (2014-02-28)

Fixing bug fix in rsyslog.conf

v1.12.0 (2014-02-27)

• [COOK-4021] Allow specifying default templates for local and remote
• [COOK-4126] rsyslog cookbook fails restarts due to not using upstart

v1.11.0 (2014-02-19)

Bug

• COOK-4256 - Fix syntax errors in default.conf on rhel

New Feature

• COOK-4022 - Add use_local_ipv4 option to allow selecting internal interface on cloud systems
• COOK-4018 - rsyslog TLS encryption support

v1.10.2

No change. Version bump for toolchain.

v1.10.0

New Feature

• COOK-4021 - Allow specifying default templates for local and remote

Improvement

• COOK-3876 - Cater for setting rate limits

v1.9.0

New Feature

• COOK-3736 - Support OmniOS

Improvement

• COOK-3609 - Add actionqueue to remote rsyslog configurations

Bug

• COOK-3608 - Add 50-default template knobs
• COOK-3600 - SmartOS support

v1.8.0

Improvement

• COOK-3573 - Add Test Kitchen, Specs, and Travis CI

New Feature

• COOK-3435 - Add support for relp

v1.7.0

Improvement

• COOK-3253 - Enable repeated message reduction
• COOK-3190 - Allow specifying which logs to send to remote server
• COOK-2355 - Support forwarding events to more than one server

v1.6.0

New Feature

• [COOK-2831]: enable high precision timestamps

Bug

• [COOK-2377]: calling node.save has adverse affects on nodes relying on a searched node's ohai attributes
• [COOK-2521]: rsyslog cookbook incorrectly sets directory ownership to rsyslog user
• [COOK-2540]: Syslogd needs to be disabled before starting rsyslogd on RHEL 5

Improvement

• [COOK-2356]: rsyslog service supports status. Service should use it.
• [COOK-2357]: rsyslog cookbook copies in wrong defaults file on Ubuntu !9.10/10.04

v1.5.0

• [COOK-2141] - Add $PreserveFQDN configuration directive

v1.4.0

• [COOK-1877] - RHEL 6 support and refactoring

v1.3.0

• [COOK-1189] - template change does not restart rsyslog on Ubuntu

This actually went into 1.2.0 with action :reload, but that change has been reverted and the action is back to :restart.

v1.2.0

• [COOK-1678] - syslog user does not exist on debian 6.0 and ubuntu versions lower than 11.04
• [COOK-1650] - enable max message size configuration via attribute

v1.1.0

Changes from COOK-1167:

• More versatile server discovery - use the IP as an attribute, or use search (see README)
• Removed cron dependency.
• Removed log archival; logrotate is recommended.
• Add an attribute to select the per-host directory in the log dir
• Works with Chef Solo now.
• Set debian/ubuntu default user and group. Drop privileges to syslog.adm.

v1.0.0

• [COOK-836] - use an attribute to specify the role to search for instead of relying on the rsyslog['server'] attribute.
• Clean up attribute usage to use strings instead of symbols.
• Update this README.
• Better handling for chef-solo.