Maintenance Release 5.1.3200

Seq 5.1.3200 is a new in-place update for Seq 5.1 that addresses a handful of bugs, and closes some small feature gaps. Binaries are available from the Seq downloads page, and container images from Docker Hub.

Directly download newline-delimited JSON

Continuing with our effort to support one JSON format everywhere, events can now be exported directly from the UI in newline-delimited compact JSON ('CLEF') format.

This makes it super easy to import events into another Seq server using seqcli ingest --json, or to feed them through many other JSON-driven tools and libraries.

seqcli updates

The bundled version of seqcli has been updated, bringing a bunch of new capabilities and bug fixes:

• Commands like seqcli ingest now support * wildcards in filenames
• The seqcli app run command makes development and debugging of Seq Apps easier
• Argument quoting in the datalust/seqcli Docker image has been fixed so that docker run datalust/seqcli log -m "Hello, world!" works properly on more platforms

There are a few other changes noted in the tracking item.

Cross-platform backup and restore

With Docker deployments picking up steam, we've been asked increasingly often about Windows → Docker migration. In 5.1.3200, backups created on Windows can be fully-restored on Docker/Linux, and vice-versa.

Bug fixes

• A long-standing problem consuming apps from Azure DevOps (VSTS) NuGet feeds has been resolved! 🎉
• A subtle bug preventing @Id = 'event-***' queries from succeeding in some circumstances was fixed
• Event payload size measurement in the "classic" JSON format is now more accurate
• Seq Apps now ignore redundant properties supplied in their configuration, fixing some issues experiences when upgrading installed apps
• The Seq Windows installer will no longer allow installation on unsupported OS versions, avoiding some upgrade headaches
• User permalinks are now included in backups (architectural changes have only just made this possible, so it's really an "enhancement" of sorts 😉)

Upgrading

Seq 5.1.3200 is an in-place update: running the MSI or re-launching your Docker container will take care of everything.

Full details of what's included are in the release milestone on GitHub.

As always, we're reachable here and via support@datalust.co if you need any help upgrading.

Happy logging!