May 2006 - syslog-ng-announce

syslog-ng 1.9.11 released
by Balazs Scheidler 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hi, Syslog-ng 1.9.11 has been released and uploaded to the usual places at http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/ with the following list of user-visible changes: 1.9.11 Tue, 23 May 2006 19:45:21 +0200 Some minor new features: * Added IPv6 support. * Added multicast support. Bugfixes: * Avoid changing owner/group/permission information for files that do not exist, to avoid clobbering the error value. * Added close-on-exec flag to avoid inheriting file descriptors for programs started by syslog-ng. * Fixed an off-by-one in flush_lines() calculation. * Fixed a possible memory leak. * Fixed a CPU spinning possibility when a non-existing filter is referenced on the log path the processes internal() messages. * Fixed hanging on reading /proc/kmsg on Linux. * Fixed sun-streams() fetching problem on Solaris. Other changes: * Documentation updates. I would like to release 2.0.0 real soon now, for this to happen I would need some positive feedback on this release. Anyone using the 1.9.x series and especially 1.9.11, please speak up. People on non-Linux platforms, now is the time to submit bugreports on portability issues. If nothing major shows up, I am going to release 2.0.0 in about a months time and obsolete 1.6.x once and for all. Thanks in advance, -- Bazsi

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syslog-ng 1.6.11 released
by Balazs Scheidler 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hi, I have released syslog-ng version 1.6.11, available at http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/ The user visible changes this time: News for the 1.6.11 release Wed, 03 May 2006 13:08:38 +0200 * Using time_sleep() caused a parser error as a rule was missed from the configuration parser. * Scalability improvements applied in 1.6.10 broke reading /proc/kmsg on Linux. -- Bazsi

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syslog-ng 1.6.10 release broken
by Balazs Scheidler 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hi, It came to my attention that syslog-ng 1.6.10 broke file("/proc/kmsg") support with the recent performance improvement patches as /proc/kmsg does not support nonblocking mode. The issue might cause the complete system to deadlock. Non-Linux platforms, or installation where /proc/kmsg is not directly processed by syslog-ng is not affected. I'm going to release 1.6.11 as soon as possible to fix this issue. -- Bazsi

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