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Version 4.1.6 - 2017-10-20

Lib upgrades, create/modify/view EventDefinition pages

Bugs

  • Correct postfix remote delivery (relay) logdefs (by handling multiple brackets in the end)
  • Correction in parsing event criteria (negations)
  • Correction in parsing Cond from criteria, support multi clasuses Conds

Improvements

  • [LOGALYZE-183] Create/Modify/View EventDefinition pages
  • [LOGALYZE-114] Impl of line charts in reports
  • Write logs position and length to the new file .ld.pos, next to the .ld files; use JVM parameter -Dl.ls.write_pos_file=true
  • Improve Criteria to check tag fields to (disabled for log definitions yet)

Tasks

  • Upgrade Engine dependencies Lucene, Derby, jfreechart, itextpdf, json.simple, snappy-java, ...
  • Upgrade GWT and SmartGWT
  • Upgrade embedded Tomcat to 8.5
  • Upgrade maven plugins
  • Removed DF:oldjson (let us know if you use it)
  • Removed unused menu item 'Manage repository' from menu under Admin tab
  • Renamed menu 'Repository' to 'Definitions' under Admin tab
  • Added Report def, Stat def, Event def links into the Admin->Definitions menu

 

Version 4.1.5 - 2017-04-10

Bugs

  • [LOGALYZE-222] - Dashboard charts: changing chart color on refresh
  • [LOGALYZE-223] - Dashboard chars+grids: timer interval does not change
  • [LOGALYZE-224] - New collector - created via admin gui - cannot start
  • [LOGALYZE-227] - Syslog parser, timestamp ends with year parse problem
  • [LOGALYZE-236] - Correction of index and raw data rolling (writing, checking) mechanizm
  • [LOGALYZE-237] - Occurrence of lock obtain timed out exception (write.lock timeout)
  • Do not reload chart/grid on Dashboard portlet when leaving settings by clicking on Cancel button
  • Add/modify report definition pages: section tab layout correction
  • Check unable-to-parse-query response at the right place

Improvements

  • [LOGALYZE-221] - Filterable report definition list
  • [LOGALYZE-231] - Refresh button on System Info page
  • [LOGALYZE-232] - Reports: configurable section parameter 'textIsHtml' in text section (ui)
  • [LOGALYZE-233] - Reports: possibility to maximize how many values should appear in charts
  • [LOGALYZE-234] - Reports: escape html characters in section/param value columns, ie do not leave to interpret it by the browser
  • [LOGALYZE-235] - Reports: possibility to add and remove parameter for section paramteres (ui)
  • Statistic chart portlet on Dashboard: update stat name on save settings; correcting chart height
  • Modified resource loading behavior when loading admin page to the browser
  • Tool to read raw log (RawReadTool)
  • Tool to write out fields of an index document (DocTool)
  • New JVM parameter: l.ir.terms_index_divisor

Tasks

  • [LOGALYZE-230] - Smartgwt theme upgrade to latest
  • [LOGALYZE-238] - Update tomcat version (6.0.48->6.0.53)
  • Set JAVA_HOME example to /usr in setenv.sh

 

Version 4.1.4 - 2016-12-30

Bugs

  • [LOGALYZE-97] Add Collector - Empty parameter list if Data format has been set to Empty
  • [LOGALYZE-115] Sticky summary page on search tab
  • [LOGALYZE-116] New free font to support ő,ű,... in pdf reports
  • [LOGALYZE-117] Wrong pdf report reendering: static text with new page, statistic, static text with new page
  • [LOGALYZE-119] Reports: loss of new line charackters in static text section (pdf reports)
  • [LOGALYZE-127] Report creation error when quotation mark in query definition
  • [LOGALYZE-132] 'error:null' message at statistics creation
  • [LOGALYZE-133] Empty CVS export
  • [LOGALYZE-134] High browser CPU usage until search is in processing state
  • [LOGALYZE-135] Top view last refresh missing
  • [LOGALYZE-138] Too many org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase getResponseBody warning message
  • [LOGALYZE-141] Export do not start with empty query
  • [LOGALYZE-145] Row detail close error (GUI)
  • [LOGALYZE-150] Refresh button in statistic page increases the stat value
  • [LOGALYZE-156] Manage Index page refresh icon problem
  • [LOGALYZE-160] Custom time range in reports doesn`t work
  • [LOGALYZE-162] No TOP value for statistics in reports
  • [LOGALYZE-163] Can`t select report clicking on caption
  • [LOGALYZE-166] Chromium browser character encoding problem in POST request
  • [LOGALYZE-172] Top does`t work with ProtoBuf DTP
  • [LOGALYZE-193] SyslogDf, parsing year (linksys format)
  • [LOGALYZE-196] When logstore rolling limit is stricter then index rolling limit, than generating bad logstore file names
  • [LOGALYZE-198] Unable to stop search with TOP
  • [LOGALYZE-200] Event icon refresh on enable/disable
  • [LOGALYZE-202] Querry list refresh at report definition
  • [LOGALYZE-210] Export current search result without starting a new one
  • [LOGALYZE-211] Use embedded fonts in header of pdf reports
  • [LOGALYZE-212] On Dashboard, statistic chart's top field setting has no effect

Improvements

  • [LOGALYZE-83] Removing labels from statistic charts
  • [LOGALYZE-86] Filterable log definition list
  • [LOGALYZE-95] Review file permissions
  • [LOGALYZE-99] Add Collector - Add DF: JSON
  • [LOGALYZE-108] JSON DF: ability to parse nested objects
  • [LOGALYZE-110] Add JDBC Collector to Admin
  • [LOGALYZE-112] System info on the About page
  • [LOGALYZE-118] Reports: support html format in static text section
  • [LOGALYZE-123] Configurable number of processor threads
  • [LOGALYZE-126] Search tab -> Fields box: 'On click action'
  • [LOGALYZE-128] New page handling in reports
  • [LOGALYZE-131] Set columns names (+width, align) in riports
  • [LOGALYZE-165] Filterable query definition list, refresh button
  • [LOGALYZE-191] Webapps servlets should log into separate log file
  • [LOGALYZE-195] Make some Lucene settings configurable trough engine.xml
  • Changing appearance: add/modify report sections in report defs
  • SocketDtp, SyslogOverTcpDtp: tcp keep alive default on, change it with paramater 'keepalive'
  • Terms of wildcard, prefix, fuzzy and range queries are NOT to be lower-cased
  • Variables can be use in event generated mail subject
  • Improved ToptermStatTask
  • [LOGALYZE-204] Fix color palette for charts
  • [LOGALYZE-218] Add ForceGC function to the Manage Engine page

New features

  • New DTP: Protobuf DTP
  • [LOGALYZE-136] Stop button on search page
  • [LOGALYZE-137] Confirm window on "Fields" refresh
  • [LOGALYZE-149] Chart data optimisation
  • New DTP: SyslogOverTcp DTP
  • [LOGALYZE-158] Host grouping on Search tab
  • [LOGALYZE-174] Base view in Search tab
  • [LOGALYZE-175] Store ProtoBuf fields in index
  • [LOGALYZE-176] Rename ProtoBuf fields according to syslog fields
  • [LOGALYZE-192] Show engine's default charset in admin's About page
  • New DF: CEF DF

Tasks

  • [LOGALYZE-79] Fixing internationalization
  • [LOGALYZE-113] Remove the 'simpleSearch' web service
  • Remove unused dependencies
  • Upgrade Gwt and SmartGwt
  • Search/query: 'top' max value is 25 (default 10)
  • [LOGALYZE-125] Improve log entry: "ReportDefinition is null"
  • [LOGALYZE-177] Own audit messages: raw as message field
  • [LOGALYZE-178] Default behavior: lowecase all incoming fields
  • [LOGALYZE-179] ProtobufDtp: convert facility number to text
  • [LOGALYZE-181] Smooth first start
  • [LOGALYZE-182] Manage config (and xsd) changes over releases
  • [LOGALYZE-206] Hide 'Active' column on statistic tab
  • [LOGALYZE-207] Optimize engine logging config
  • [LOGALYZE-208] Removing copyright footer from main window
  • [LOGALYZE-215] Move system infos page for Admin->Help to Admin->System
  • [LOGALYZE-216] Upgrade embedded tomcat (6.0.35->6.0.48)
  • [LOGALYZE-217] Move the Help menu from Admin tab to main screen menu (next to user menu)
  • [LOGALYZE-219] Remove shutdown engine functionality from soap api and web ui
  • [LOGALYZE-220] Put back shutdown engine functionality to soap api, it is in use by logalyze-cli

 

Version 4.1.3 - 2013-05-29

Bugs

  • [LOGALYZE-100] Windows startup script: LOGALYZE_HOME can contain space now
  • [LOGALYZE-96] Dashboard - Tag cloud: Fix search field name from tag to _tag

Improvements

  • [LOGALYZE-102] Startup, Shutdown process notifications
  • [LOGALYZE-103] Internal database configuration has been moved to engine.xml
  • API: Common error handling improvements
  • [LOGALYZE-105] Show Roles without any permission
  • [LOGALYZE-107] 'TOP' search result can be sorted by column 'Count'
  • Newer version of SmartGWT
  • [LOGALYZE-109] List user permissions on user profile page
  • New Maven plugin versions and put SVN Revision into Engine Jar Manifest file

New features

  • Roles
  • LOGalyze Engine code format hints
  • New unit tests

 

Version 4.1.2 - 2012-03-18

Bugs

  • Log Definition with unknown function 'ncsa' was released in 4.1.1

 

Version 4.1.1 - 2013-03-13

Bugs

  • LOGALYZE-71: Remove progress indicator if log in fails
  • LOGALYZE-69: Display all value of field _tag in Search result
  • Some CSS and layout fixes
  • LOGALYZE-94: Fix error during Definition file saving
  • LOGALYZE-66: Create new Statistic Definition: sometime store table was not created
  • Updated Time zone list
  • Fixed chart labels in PDF reports
  • Some minor modifications and fixes

Improvements

  • API: New server side input validations
  • Updated inline documentation for main configuration file
  • Updated inline Collector Schema Documentation
  • LOGALYZE-87: Reorderable Report sections
  • Fix startup files on Windows
  • Improved data aggregation

New features

  • New Index rolling frequency (half-day)
  • New JVM parameters (rolling policy) in startup script
  • LOGalyze Repository content is in the release package

Known bugs

Log Definition with missing NCSA parser

Symptoms

LOGalyze Engine does not start. Error message:

ERROR LOGalyzeEngine Error occured during initialization of LOGalyze Engine. 
Startup aborted.
com.logalyze.engine.config.ConfigException: Unknown function: ncsa

Cause

There is a wrong Log Definition file in conf/repository/ folder called ddb67bfe-ae5a-11e1-88ed-0018de9d2512.xml. This file contains a parser (ncsa) which is missing from 4.1.1

Resolution

Simply remove this file or rename it to ddb67bfe-ae5a-11e1-88ed-0018de9d2512.xml.disabled

 

Version 4.1.0 - 2012-10-25 - Open Source Release

This version is the first Open Source Release of LOGalyze released under LGPL v3.

 

Version 4.0.3 - 2012-07-25

Bugs

  • Collectors: Identity type collector is added
  • Dashboard: Fix layout bug in ChartPortlet
  • Statistics: dimension value is truncated to 128 chars
  • Statistics: line chart margin is fixed
  • Statistics: ability to select dimension to display
  • Statistics: SUM function was missing on New Statistics Definition page

Improvements

  • Common colors: charts will use the same color for a given series every time
  • New caching method for Grid components
  • Charts: disable animation
  • Index: loghostname field is cenverted to lowercase
  • Search: new generated field: Format = DTP+DF
  • Search: fetch result as soon as number of collected rows reaches the pagesize

New features

  • Search: TOP modifier. TOP search modifier is similar to COUNT(*) GROUP BY sql clause
  • Manage Indexes directories: ability to attach and detach an Index directory online
  • Linux Audit Subsystem log parser

 

Notes on upgrade: After upgrading logalyze-engine package you should manually delete lib/logalyze-engine-4.0.2.jar or older jar.

 

 

Version 4.0.2 - 2012-03-29

Bugs

  • Engine: Fixed reading logs from logstore files if daily log count is bigger than 2,147,483,647
  • Admin: remove double click handler from Report History grid
  • Admin: handle NOT_LOGGED_IN response globally

Improvements

  • Admin - Search: display name of Query Definition if entered query is already saved
  • Search: new search modifier '| postfix_accounting'
  • Search: TimeRangePicker 'All time' starts from 1970-01-01
  • Admin: upgrade dependencies. GWT 2.4, SmartGWT 3.0
  • Admin - Stat: Top N filter for Pie chart
  • Admin: minor improvements on GUI
  • Reports: add time zone to Report Job
  • Collectors: CSV parser supports multi-character delimiter string
  • Engine: Windows startup script
  • Statistics: 10 times faster statistics collection

Notes on upgrade

After upgrading logalyze-engine package you should manually delete lib/logalyze-engine-4.0.0.jar or lib/logalyze-engine-4.0.1.jar.

 

Version 4.0.1 - 2012-01-24

Bugs

  • Search criteria coming from chart was not added to Search History
  • Search results grid - Field _tag: only the first value was shown
  • Statistics: Stacked bar legend: dimension value was not shown
  • Dashboard - Index date range: timestamps were in GMT
  • Collector did not stop to the STOP ws
  • Search: click to add feature did not work on field: severity
  • Click-through search from Dashboard did not refresh the time interval
  • Password field value is erased after success login

Improvements

  • If there is no data for a report section it is completely missing
  • Export search result as CSV
  • Default sort of Report History: name, asc
  • Default sort of Add Query Definition to Report: name, asc

Notes on upgrade

After upgrading logalyze-engine package you should manually delete lib/logalyze-engine-4.0.0.jar.

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