November 2007 - syslog-ng-announce

syslog-ng Agent for Windows 2.1.4 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Agent for Windows VERSION : 2.1.4 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Nov 26, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Agent for Windows (2.1.4) has been released. For latest fixes in the 2.1.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: New features: * When checking the server's certificate, the agent now accepts a wildcard in the Common Name, e.g., *.example.com. * A new macro called $MONTHNAME is available that returns the three-character abbreviation of the monthname in English (e.g., Jan, Feb, etc.). * When using mutual authentication and the subject of the client's certificate is not set in the ClientCertSubject registry key, the agent tries to find a certificate that has the host name or the IP address of the syslog-ng server in its Common Name (whichever is set in the Server name parameter of the syslog-ng agent). * When uninstalling the agent from a host, it is now possible to automatically remove all configuration data from the registry. Bugfixes: * The agent sends the 'Failed to find client certificate' error message into the event log if it cannot find a certificate suitable for the server's request. * The agent checks if the server's certificate is not on a certificate revocation list (CRL). * The validity period of the server's certificate was incorrectly checked in certain situations. This behavior has been corrected. DOWNLOAD: Download the latest binaries from: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/binaries/syslog-ng-agent/

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syslog-ng 2.0.6 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 2.0.6 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Nov 28, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (2.0.6) has been released. For latest fixes in the 2.0.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 2.0.6 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:35:27 +0100 IMPORTANT NOTES: * There are two possible Denial of Service fixes in this version of syslog-ng, therefore it is strongly recommended to upgrade to this version. Bugfixes: * HP-UX related build and runtime fixes, backported from the Premium Edition. * If unable to resolve the name of the target host, syslog-ng failed to initialize the TCP/UDP destination drivers. This behavior has been corrected. * Corrected program name parsing in incoming messages. * Fixed a problem in handling messages which lacked explicit timezone information, but the administrator specified a timezone for the messages. * Fixed some minor memory leaks in configuration reloads. * Fixed a segmentation fault which occurred when the timestamp of the incoming messages did not end with a space character (NULL pointer dereference). This is an easy Denial of Service possibility. * Fixed a segmentation fault which occurred when the PID macro was used and the message had a closing bracket (']') before an opening bracket ('['). * Fixed a possible segmentation fault for UDP6/TCP6 destinations. * Fixed IPv6 scope id resolution for link-local addresses. * Solaris related fixes. BINARY DOWNLOAD: If you have a binary subscription, you can download the latest binaries from: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system… OR, if you have a platform that is supported by apt-get, use the following apt sources to fetch the latest releases: Debian GNU/Linux ---------------- sarge: deb https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/open-source/ debian-sarge/syslog-ng-2.0 syslog-ng etch: deb https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/open-source/ debian-etch/syslog-ng-2.0 syslog-ng RedHat Enterprise Linux ----------------------- RHEL-4 rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/open-source/ rhel-4/syslog-ng-2.0 syslog-ng SUSE 10 ------- SUSE 10.0 rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/open-source/ suse-10.0/syslog-ng-2.0 syslog-ng SUSE 10.1 rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/open-source/ suse-10.1/syslog-ng-2.0 syslog-ng HTTP can also be used in the place of HTTPS If your version of apt-get does not support the HTTPS protocol. When using plain HTTP, the username and password will not be encrypted. SOURCE DOWNLOAD: The latest versions of syslog-ng in source format can be found at: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/sources/2.0/src/

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syslog-ng Premium Edition 2.1.7b has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Premium Edition VERSION : 2.1.7b SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Nov 9, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Premium Edition (2.1.7b) has been released. For latest fixes in the 2.1.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 2.1.7b Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:32:18 +0100 Bugfixes: * Fixed some Oracle interoperability issues in the SQL driver. 2.1.7a Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:06:35 +0100 Bugfixes: * Fixed a database-thread scheduling problem that caused the database thread to wake up too frequently to check whether the connection to the database existed. This problem caused a high load on the server running syslog-ng. * Fixed a Solaris 8/9 related build problem that caused the SQL destination driver to be omitted from the compilation (affects 2.1.7 only) DOWNLOAD: Download the latest binaries from: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/binaries/premium-edition/ OR, if you have a platform that is supported by apt-get, use the following apt sources to fetch the latest releases: Debian GNU/Linux ---------------- etch: deb https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/premium/ debian-etch/syslog-ng-2.1 syslog-ng-pe RedHat Enterprise Linux ----------------------- RHEL-4 rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/premium/ rhel-4/syslog-ng-2.1 syslog-ng-pe SUSE 10 ------- SUSE 10.0 rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/premium/ suse-10.0/syslog-ng-2.1 syslog-ng-pe SUSE 10.1 rpm https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balabit.com/syslog-ng/premium/ suse-10.1/syslog-ng-2.1 syslog-ng-pe HTTP can also be used in the place of HTTPS If your version of apt-get does not support the HTTPS protocol. When using plain HTTP, the username and password will not be encrypted.

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syslog-ng Agent for Windows 2.1.3 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Agent for Windows VERSION : 2.1.3 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Nov 7, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Agent for Windows (2.1.3) has been released. For latest fixes in the 2.1.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 2.1.3 Wed, 7 November 2007 13:20:55 +0200 New features: * The syslog-ng agent now supports both the ISO and the BSD-style timestamp format. * Several new macros are available for different parts of the timestamp (day, hour, etc.). See 'The syslog-ng Administrator Guide' at http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/ for details. * The SID field of event log entries is resolved into names. These names are also available using the new $EVENT_SID_TYPE macro. Bugfixes: * In log files, lines that did not end with a line break were not handled properly. This behavior has been corrected. * In certain cases, the agent did not properly handle the EventID parameter of log events. This behavior has been corrected. * Corrections in the behavior of the $EVENT_SID and $EVENT_NAME macros. * Event log messages do not always include the entire message in the event log; messages may refer to message parts that are stored in DLLs. When a referenced DLL was not available, or did not contain the referenced message, the syslog-ng agent returned an error message. Now it sends the message as it is included in the event log, so the references are visible in the syslog message. DOWNLOAD: Download the latest binaries from: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/binaries/syslog-ng-agent/

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