Release notes

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.