LogReport History

FIXME: lots of broken links

• 2006-07-26:

  Lire 2.0.2 was released today. See the announcement message.

• 2005-04-16:

  The LogReport Annual Report 2004 is published. Get it, in various formats, from the About LogReport page.

• 2005-03-31:

  Thanks to the Tilburg University the LogReport project now has a second mirror of the download section of our website. Downloading the LogReport software is now even more reliable.

• 2004-10-09:

  Lire 2.0.1 was released today. This is a bug fixes release for 2.0. This version requires the DBD::SQLite2 driver (since newer DBD::SQLite versions are incompatible with previous version). It is available from the download page.

• 2004-09-03:

  Lire 2.0 was released today. More information can be found on the Lire 2.0 release page.

• 2004-06-08:

  The LogReport Annual Report 2003 is published. Get it, in various formats, from the About LogReport page.

• 2004-04-13:

  The LogReport team is looking for translators willing to translate Lire's messages catalogs to their native languages. Consult the Lire's localization page for details.

• 2004-04-13:

  Lire 1.5 was released today. More information can be found on the Lire 1.5 release page.

• 2004-01-07:

  Lire 1.4.1 was released today. This release makes it possible to use DBD::SQLite 0.29 with Lire. You can download it from the download page. Binary packages will be available soon.

• 2003-11-16:

  Lire 1.4 was released today. More information can be found on the Lire 1.4 release page.

• 2003-11-13:

  The Lire 2.0 Project Roadmap was published. This page gives information on future Lire developments.

• 2003-11-04:

  Release Candidate 1 of Lire 1.4 is now available. More information on that release is available on the Lire 1.4 release page.

• 2003-08-19:

  On February 28, 2003, Joost van Baal's payed contract with LogReport ended, and on June 30, 2003, Wessel Dankers' payed contract ended. Both Wessel and Joost however plan to keep doing work for the project, by donating volunteer contributions.

  Since August 19, 2003, Francis Lacoste together with Wolfgang Sourdeau are payed for their work on Lire. Wolfgang is of ghfaxviewer, the GNU HaliFAX Viewer, fame, and is a volunteer for the Debian project.

• 2003-08-07:

  The Stichting LogReport Annual Report 2002 is published. It gives an overview of both the activities of the development team during the year, including some statisistics, as well as financial information.

• 2003-07-31:

  The LogReport server was moved from a collocation facility in Eindhoven to Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The NLnet Labs foundation (of NSD Name Server Daemon fame, a.o.) has offered LogReport to share their rackspace with us. LogReport gladfully accepts this very generous offer. Thanks NLnet Labs people!

• 2003-07-03:

  At todays LogReport board meeting a new board got elected. Teus Hagen will no longer be a member of the board; Joost van Baal got elected as a new member. Teus however will keep doing work for the project, as an advisor to the board. Wytze van der Raay and Jakob Schripsema will continue their positions in the board.

• 2003-05-24:

  The Online Responder was ugpraded to the latest 1.3 release.

  This adds support for Snort, TinyDNS and Sun ONE Messaging Server log files to our responder.

• 2003-05-17:

  The LogReport Foundation has released Lire 1.3, available for download here. This release features a new configuration tool, and new APIs for configuration management and DLF converters. It also contains user-contributions which add support for log files from Snort, TinyDNS, Sun ONE Messaging Server and CheckPoint FW-1.

  For all the details, check the NEWS file.

  RPMS for this release are available from here or using the APT archive.

• 2003-03-19:

  The new name apt.logreport.org is introduced. This name is guaranteed to point to apt-able LogReport archives, now and in the future. You can use it for Red Hat 8.0 using apt-rpm, with

  rpm http://apt.logreport.org/pub/rpm redhat/8.0 lire

  For Debian GNU/Linux, the line would read

  deb http://apt.logreport.org/pub/debian local contrib

  More details on our download page.

• 2003-03-19:

  Thanks to the kind donation of Guus Sliepen we now have a dedicated download site! The old links will redirect you transparently, except in the case of apt: Debian users may want to change the hostname of the Lire-related lines in their /etc/apt/sources.list from (www.)logreport.org into download.logreport.org. Happy downloading!

• 2002-12-29:

  New RPMS for Mandrake 9.0, Red Hat 7.3 and Red Hat 8.0 were released. They contain an important bug fix for the lr_vendor_cron script which is responsible for automatic report generation. The RPMS can be downloaded or fetched through urpmi and apt-get.

• 2002-12-04:

  Wessel gave a presentation on the use of XML in Lire at the XML and OpenSource Workshop in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on the 13th of November. The slides are available from this website now.

• 2002-12-03:

  There is a 1.2.1 release available which fixes an important bug discovered in the 1.2 release: the defaults.local file was ignored. The new release is available from here.

  Updated RPMS for Mandrake 9.0, Red Hat 7.3 and Red Hat 8.0 are available here or through urpmi and apt-get.

• 2002-11-30:

  Users of Mandrake 9.0 can now use urpmi to install and update the Lire RPMS. Details can be found on our download page.

• 2002-11-30:

  Users who run Red Hat 7.3 or Red Hat 8.0 and use apt-rpm to keep their installation up-to-date, can also use it with Lire. Details on how to access the RPMS APT archive can be found on our download page.

• 2002-11-29:

  The LogReport Foundation has released Lire 1.2, available for download here, with major features like complex table layout, column's labels, ratios added to the report engine. All available reports were updated to take advantage of these new features. Support for log files from DBMail, SpamAssassin and WTSyslog was also added. For all the details, check the NEWS file.

  We'd especially like to thank Edwin Groothuis for his code contributions to Lire 1.2!

  RPMS for this release are available from here.

• 2002-11-28:

  There have been shifts in the LogReport team: Since November 1, 2002, Josh Koenig no longer works on a contract basis for LogReport. He'll likely continue contributing bits and pieces as time goes on, and will continue selling LogReport.com consultancy.

  Since November 1, Joost van Baal has decreased his weekly payed hours spent on LogReport work.

  This means the list of people, being payed by the LogReport Foundation for working on Lire, now is: Joost van Baal, Wessel Dankers and Francis J. Lacoste.

  This does not mean we'll reconsider our plans with Lire, as layed down in our roadmap. However, more volunteer help is welcome always, of course. How about you?

• 2002-08-20:

  Lire 1.1 Released

  The LogReport Foundation has released Lire 1.1, available for download here, with lots of new logs formats supported (too many to mention, check the NEWS for a complete list). Work has started on using an SQL database for storing internal DLF data. Lire's architecture has been altered to make it more pluggable and developer documentation has been expanded and improved. For all the details, check the NEWS file. As always, binary packages for Debian and RPM based GNU/Linux systems will follow soon. For this release, we're working on a FreeBSD port too.

  We'd especially like to thank Arnaud Taddei, Arnaud Gaillard, Joost Bekkers and Edwin Groothuis for their code contributions to Lire 1.1!

• 2002-08-15:

  Logreport.com Launched

  The LogReport Foundation has launched logreport.com to provide world-class professional services to customers who are interested in making use of Lire in their organization. The LogReport team will continue to offer support to all of our .org users and contributors, but commercial and institutional clients can now purchase custom development, implementation assistance, strategic consultation and dedicated support.

• 2002-07-25:

  Lire CVS snapshot release

  A new CVS snapshot has been built of the current CVS code. It's available from http://logreport.org/pub/cvs-snapshots/lire-cvs-20020725.tar.gz.

  Improvements include, updated documentation, BIND 9.3 support, WatchGuard Firebox firewall support (thanks Joost Bekkers!), configurable image formats, and a few other bug fixes. We hope you enjoy it!

• 2002-07-22:

  Lire 1.0 debian packages released

  The lire_1.0-1_all.deb Debian package, along with its sources, was just uploaded to the Debian mirrors; it will enter the sid and sarge distributions soon. As always, the package is available from 'deb http://logreport.org/pub/debian local contrib' too.

• 2002-06-24:

  The LogReport team proudly announces Lire 1.0, just uploaded to http://www.logreport.org/pub/.

  The major new features and improvements include report merging (both over time and over servers) and new services for Cisco PIX firewalls and PostgreSQL query logs. Furthermore, output in Excel95 spreadsheet format is now supported, making it easy to include Lire reports in business presentations as well as generate those sexy 3d charts.

  More details are in the NEWS file. Binary packages for RPM based GNU/Linux systems are available here. Debian packages coming soon.

  We have planned many further upgrades to the system based on all the helpful comments from users and fellow developers. Our development will be focused on making the Lire framework even more robust, with power features like an SQL back-end and interactive cross-service reports on the visible horizon. Special thanks to those of you who've contributed ideas, logfiles and development time. We hope you'll like Lire 1.0 as much as we do!

• The Lire Team will be attending the 3rd International SANE Conference in Maastricht, The Netherlands May 30 and 31, 2002. If you are also going to attend and are interested, contact us and we'll see about organizing a BoF sesssion to discuss Lire's short-term and long-term development plans.

• 2002-04-15:

  A new Lire release is available for download today. This update includes major performance enhancements, support for ArGoSoft mail server, HTML and PDF output options for the lr_log2mail command as well as numerous other bug fixes and enhancements. More detailed information is available in the NEWS file. Users who are upgrading from a previous version must read the NEWS file for important information regarding non-backward compatible changes.

  You can also browse the release if you like.

• 2002-02-26:

  The slides from the presentation and the booklet that was handed out at FOSDEM 2002 in Brussels are available. Enjoy!

• 2002-02-14:

  A new Lire release is available for download today. This release includes numerous new services (including new database and proxy superservices) as well as other significant updates. A full list of new features and changes can be found in the NEWS file. You can also browse the release if you like.

• 2002-02-04: As of January 1, Plamen Bozukov has left LogReport. We thank him for his valuable contributions. As of February 4, Jan Stap has left LogReport. We thank him for his volunteer contributions, especially during LogReport's startup phase.
• 2001-12-08: Our new website is now online! The new webmasters, Joshua Koenig and Wessel Dankers, hope you enjoy the improved appearance, structure and other new features. Any odd behaviour can be reported to the webmasters.
• 2001-12-05: A new Lire package, lire 20011205 has been uploaded. New in this version: new print services (CUPS and LPRng) have been added; support for W3C Extended Log Format as used by Microsoft's Internet Information Server IIS 4.0 and IIS 5.0; support for Linux 2.2 ipchains log, as well as *BSD's IP Filter log. Lots of new reports. Many performance improvements and bug fixes. More details are in the NEWS file.
• 2001-12-01: A presentation about Lire was made by Egon Willighagen at Linux Kongress 2001 in Enschede, The Netherlands. The slides are available here.
• 2001-11-15: The current unstable CVS snapshot (available at /pub/cvs-snapshots/) of Lire supports numerous new reports, thanks to its re-written report generation engine. If you're wary of running an unstable release, Online responder service has been implemented for the following new logs: w3c extended (the log format for IIS), CUPS and LPRng.
• 2001-10-17: A new version of Lire has been released. Lots of changes: new output formats, new reports, new super services (FTP and firewall), performance improvement, bug fixes. Also this version includes a complete rewrite of the report generation engine, which makes customization of reports much easier. A complete list of changes can be found here.
• 2001-10-05: The LinuxFocus article featuring LogReport has now been translated into Spanish, German, French, Portugues, Russian and Turkish. The original English version can be found here.
• 2001-09-19: Lire in CVS now supports RTF output for our users administrating multi-platform networks.
• 2001-09-13: As of September 1, Christoph Lameter has left LogReport. We thank him for his contributions, and wish him success at his new Telemetry Box project for FoundryOne.
• 2001-09-13: As of August 23, Plamen Bozukov joined the LogReport team. He'll work on, among other things, developing a graphical user interface for Lire. Read more about him on our who-is-who page.
• 2001-09-04: A new stable release of Lire is available. Many bugs have been fixed, and functionality has been added. WWW log analysis is much improved, with detecting of browsers, operating systems etc, for the combined format. WWW referrer information can now be analyzed, as used in Apache's referrer and combined formats. DNS analysis has been improved to support a wider range of log files. More information about this release can be read in the NEWS file. The release itself can be downloaded from http://www.logreport.org/pub/.