[syslog-ng] syslog-ng Insider - May 2011

[Peter Czanik]

Dear syslog-ng users,

This is the 3rd issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter
that brings you syslog-ng related news.
Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at
documentation at balabit.com <mailto:documentation at balabit.com>

FEATURED NEWS

syslog-ng OSE 3.3 development
-----------------------------
The previous month did not see a new syslog-ng 3.3 alpha or beta
release, but development still went on. There were many important
bugfixes and performance improvements. Also, most of the patches from
the community were merged, including value-pairs(), mongo-db updates and
JSON support. There is now a feature freeze in effect, so new features
go now into the freshly opened syslog-ng 3.4 repository.
The current version can be checked out out from git, which has regular
updates at http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.3.git;a=summary

The mailing list archive with some more patches:
http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/

Blog about the feature freeze:
http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2011/05/syslog-ng-3-3-feature-freeze-3-4-branch-opened/


Blog series on web GUIs for syslog-ng
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Web based GUIs for syslog-ng is a hot topic recently, so a new blog
series was started. This month I'll cover a new challenger: ELSA, which
has patterndb at its heart.If you have any suggestions what else to
cover, please let us know!

ELSA:
https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2011/05/elsa-web-interface-for-syslog-ng-and-patterndb/


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OTHER SHORT NEWS

    * Maintenance policy update for syslog-ng OSE:
      http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2011/05/maintenance-policy-update-for-syslog-ng-open-source-editions/

    * Algernon's syslog-ng status update:
      http://algernon.blogs.balabit.com/2011/05/veni-vidi-vici/


NEW RELEASES

    * new 3.2 OSE bugfix release:
      http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2011-May/016576.html


RECENT WHITEPAPERS

    * How to establish a distributed syslog architecture in
      heterogeneous environment with syslog-ng Premium Edition?
      http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-v4.0-whitepaper-distributed-syslog-architectures-en.pdf

    * Get familiar with the advantages of using syslog-ng Premium
      Edition to collect system log (syslog) messages into an SQL
      database, such as Oracle or MySQL.
      http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-v4.0-whitepaper-syslog-into-sql-database-en.pdf



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Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/