Release of v3.8.4 cb-event-forwarder

Event Forwarder 3.8.4 improves the customer experience in the following areas:

• The service correctly processes bundled, compressed event data.

Features:

• The service employs a more efficient compression engine.

Release of v3.8.3 cb-event-forwarder

Bug Fixes / Changes

• The service no longer panics and fails to run when a syslog port number is not provided. The system assumes a default port of 514 and carries on.
• The service correctly interprets S3 bucket locations stated as <Temp File Location>:<region>:<bucket_name>

Release of v3.8.2 cb-event-forwarder

Features

• Support for dockerized EDR added via new event-forwarder docker image.

Bug Fixes / Changes

• Adapt to change in RabbitMQ authentication in EDR v7.7.0, but maintain backwards compatibility.
• Fixed issue that could cause event forwarder to lock up if excessive amount of time happened without logging events

Release of v3.7.6 cb-event-forwarder

Bug Fixes / Changes

• This change enables EF to properly authenticate with RabbitMQ under EDR 7.7.0. It is also backwards-compatible with EDR 7.6.2 and older.

Release of v3.8.1 cb-event-forwarder

v3.8.1

Bug Fixes / Changes

• Fix a bug where timestamps were not included with certain event-types
• Fix a bug where messages were silently dropped in certain error cases
• Improve hostname detection
• Better error logging for configuration errors

Release of v3.8.0 cb-event-forwarder

Features

• The new EDR event task.error.logged is now supported. This event is enabled using task_errors=ALL in the EF configuration file. It is also supported in the EDR console configuration page for EF, starting with EDR v7.5.0.
• compression_type=lz4 A new compression type, lz4 is now available. The gzip type is still the default. LZ4 is a lossless data compression algorithm that is focused on compression and decompression speed.
• log_level=DEBUG can be used to control logging level

Bug Fixes / Changes

• Log files are now retained and rolled over after restarts.
• Under some circumstances the EF process would not terminate when shut down. This is no longer the case.
• S3 output has been improved.
• Protobuf processing performance improvements

v3.7.5

CB EDR Event Forwarder Changelog

v3.7.5

Bug Fixes / Changes

• Fixed a bug allowing NetconnBlocked messages to be written out

Release of 3.7.4 cb-event-forwarder

• Bugfix: Changed the startup permissions script to operate more gracefully on systems where EDR is not installed.
• Packages are now available for EL6, EL7, and EL8 platforms.

Release of 3.7.3 cb-event-forwarder

v3.7.3

Bug Fixes / Changes

• Fixed an error in the HTTPOutput that would cause the forwarder to send empty-files to the remote even when not configured to do so.

Release of 3.7.2 cb-event-forwarder

v3.7.2

Features

• EDR Event Forwarder automatically sets cb_server_url and cb_server_name using the FQDN of the host it is running on , unless these options are explicitly set in the configuration file
• EL8 Support!

Bug Fixes / Changes

• HTTP Output handler detects errors at runtime, and will not allow configurations lacking a protocol-prefix like http(s)://