v1.8.0

Changes

• Alexey Gladkov gladkov.alexey@gmail.com
  • syslogd: Incoming messages are processed without memory allocation.
  • syslogd: Messages can be forwarded to unix domain socket.
  • syslogd: Further source code cleanup.
  • Added documentation for log_format.

v1.7.0

Changes

• Alexey Gladkov gladkov.alexey@gmail.com

  • syslogd: Implement customization of log file records without extra memory
    allocations.
  • syslogd: Implement checksum (sha256) chains for log entries as mechanism
    for detecting intrusion into log files.
  • syslogd: Allow to have more than 20 inputs.
  • Use autotools as build system.
  • Huge source code cleanup.

• ArkanoiD ark@owl.openwall.com

  • syslogd: Enable unix socket peer credentials check.

v1.6.0

Changes

• Alexey Gladkov gladkov.alexey@gmail.com

  • syslogd: Add -c option to do not compress repeated messages.
  • syslogd, klogd: Drop obsolete code (SYSV, TESTING, etc.).
  • klogd: Drop obsolete kernel symbols resolution because the linux kernel
    can do this for a long time.

• Dmitry V. Levin ldv@altlinux.org

  • klogd: Add -u option to become the specified user.
  • klogd: Add -j option to run in chroot.
  • syslogd: Add -i option to specify IP address to bind to.
  • syslogd: Add -u option to switch to another user.
  • syslogd: Add -j option to chroot daemon.
  • syslogd: Add -P option to specify directory with symlinks to additional
    sockets has to listen to.
  • syslogd: Change the permissions of created files from 644 to 600.
  • syslogd, klogd: Redirect std descriptors to /dev/null.

• Alan Jenkins alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk

  • Improved sleep/alarm/mark implementation.

• Thomas Jarosch thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com

  • Move hostname setting code from main() into init().

• Joey

  • Only read /etc/services when needed
  • Documentation update.

• John Haxby john.haxby@oracle.com

  • IPv6 support forward ported from FreeBSD.

• David Couture glowplugrelayw0rks@gmail.com

  • Correct continuation line problems on 64bit architecture.