Version 2.6.1

Released 6 April 2026

This patch release improves the operability of SCE for Linux by resolving an issue that caused catalog compilation failures and by updating the module loading syntax to accommodate recent changes in the rsyslog logging service.

Resolved issues

• Error message: comparison of NilClass with <number> failed. Some users saw this error message and experienced catalog compilation failures when attempting to manage mounted file system options with SCE for Linux. The issue was caused by /etc/fstab files that did not have at least one comment line or blank line. The internal parser was updated to avoid the issue and help prevent compilation errors.

• sce_mount_info fact does not resolve to a value. This issue is related to the Linux findmnt command, which is used to list all mounted file systems. The command, which supports different options depending on operating system, was failing on specific systems, resulting in a failure of the sce_mount_info fact. Now, if the findmnt command fails, warnings will be logged, and the /etc/fstab file will be parsed directly for mount information.

• Error messages related to rsyslog. Because the version of the rsyslog logging service used on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 differs from earlier versions, users of RHEL 9 sometimes see error messages like this:
  imjournal: open() failed for path: '/var/lib/rsyslog/imjournal.state.tmp': Operation not permitted
  These messages indicate a failure to load the rsyslog imjournal module. To accommodate the changes in rsyslog and avoid this error, the module loading syntax was updated in SCE for Linux.