Features

• Free Edition: Added updated feature handling for WinSyslog free-mode deployments.
• File-based configuration: Added YAML configuration support for service configuration files.
• Runtime metrics: Added disabled-by-default service metrics with an HTTPS query endpoint for operational monitoring.
• Service installation: Added install-time options for service parameters.
• Database actions: Added configurable commit batching for ODBC and OLE DB writers.

Bugfixes and improvements

• Syslog listener: Hardened TCP/TLS receive handling, policy checks, oversized-message rejection, and embedded control-character escaping.
• Syslog action: Improved TCP/TLS send reliability, partial-write handling, and timeout behavior.
• RELP listener: Improved acknowledgment reliability and send-window handling.
• File action: Improved log rotation durability, retry persistence, reload recovery, archive handling, and shutdown behavior.
• Database actions: Improved failed-batch recovery, queue persistence, transaction handling, and generated event properties.
• SNMP services and actions: Hardened trap receiver boundaries, monitor cleanup, memory handling, and string handling.
• Mail action: Fixed body normalization sizing.
• Start Program action: Hardened command expansion bounds.
• MonitorWare Echo Reply service: Improved cleanup for malformed request trailers.
• Core engine: Improved configuration reload shutdown, command lifetime handling, registry writes, cache bounds, string parsing, and XML conversion safety.
• Property engine: Fixed RFC3339 timestamp cache reuse in syslog headers.
• Service diagnostics: Improved HTTP metrics endpoint behavior and counter semantics.