liblognorm 1.1.2 released

Monday, July 20th, 2015

We have just released liblognorm 1.1.2. This release contains new parser syntaxes and some fixes.

Changes:
Version 1.1.2, 2015-07-20

  • permit newline inside parser definition
  • new parser “cisco-interface-spec”
  • new parser “json” to process json parts of the message
  • new parser “mac48” to process mac layer addresses
  • new parser “name-value-list” (currently inofficial, experimental)
  • some parsers did incorrectly report success when an error occurred
    this was caused by inconsistencies between various macros. We have
    changed the parser-generation macros to match the semantics of the
    broader CHKN/CHKR macros and also restructured/simplified the
    parser generation macros.
    closes https://github.com/rsyslog/liblognorm/issues/41
  • call “rest” parser only if nothing else matches.
    Versions prior to 1.1.2 did execute “rest” during regular parser
    processing, and thus parser matches have been more or less random.
    With 1.1.2 this is now always the last parser called. This may cause
    problems with existing rulesets, HOWEVER, adding any other rule or
    changing the load order would also have caused problems, so there
    really is no compatibility to preserve.
    see also:
    http://blog.gerhards.net/2015/04/liblognorms-rest-parser-now-more-useful.html
  • new API to support error callbacks
    This permits callers to forward messages in regard to e.g. wrong rule
    bases to their users, which is very useful and actually missing in the
    previous code base. So far, we only have few error messages.
    However, we will review the code and add more. The important part is
    that callers can begin to use the new API and thus will benefit when
    we add more error messages.
  • testbench is now enabled by default
  • bugfix: misadressing on some constant values
    see also https://github.com/rsyslog/liblognorm/pull/67
    Thanks to github user ontholerian for the patch
  • bugfix: add missing function prototypes
    This could potentially lead to problems on some platforms,
    especially those with 64 bit pointers.

Download:
http://www.liblognorm.com/download/liblognorm-1-1-2/

As always, feedback is appreciated.

Best regards,
Florian Riedl