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Hi,</div>
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Over a week ago I ran a Twitter poll and also asked around here on the mailing list about if/how you use Java in syslog-ng. No responses here and only a few "no" responses on Twitter. We know about some users, who use the Java bindings, but not our modules.
Any previous users of Java modules I asked directly told me, that they already changed to kafka-c and elasticsearch-http.<br>
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A few days later Fedora announced, that they are removing JDK 1.8 support from Rawhide. So, here is a list of changes and plans for the official distro syslog-ng packages and for my unofficial packages:</div>
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<li>removed Java support completely from the official Fedora Rawhide package (no support for JDK 1.11 yet in syslog-ng), to avoid dropping syslog-ng from the distro<br>
</li><li>my unofficial packages will follow, once JDK 1.8 is really removed from the distro (end of July)<br>
</li><li>keep Java bindings everywhere else, as long as 1.8 is available</li><li>removed java modules (drivers) from all of my unofficial packages (Java-based Elasticsearch, Kafka, HDFS)</li></ul>
<div>My syslog-ng git snapshot packages (<a href="https://syslog-ng.com/blog/rpm-packages-from-syslog-ng-git-head/">https://syslog-ng.com/blog/rpm-packages-from-syslog-ng-git-head/</a>) already have these changes, and my 3.28 packages will be derived from these,
once the release is available.</div>
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<div>Bye,<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@oneidentity.com><br>
Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream<br>
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