May 2008 - syslog-ng-announce

syslog-ng Premium Edition 2.1.11 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 29 May '08

29 May '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Premium Edition VERSION : 2.1.11 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : May 28, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Premium Edition (2.1.11) has been released. For latest fixes in the 2.1.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 2.1.11 Tue, 27 May 2008 11:06:48 +0200 Bugfixes: * Fixed RPM packaging to create /var/lib/syslog-ng automatically. * Fixed a 100% CPU usage problem triggered by the pipe() destination. This is a regression in 2.1.10 and does not affect earlier versions. * Fixed hostname parsing for names that begin with numeric characters. * Proper handling of disk-full conditions (and any write-related errors); prior versions suspended writing to the failing destination until a SIGHUP was received. From now on syslog-ng reopens the given destination after time_reopen() seconds. * Fixed year recognition heuristics to properly handle timestamps that are slightly in the future at month changes. Earlier versions mistakenly recognized these timestamps as ones from the preceding year. Other changes: * Added support for specifying the name of the disk-spool directory on the syslog-ng command line. * The configuration file can use DOS-style CRLF line endings. * Added support for the BSDTAG macro. * The syslog-ng startup will not fail if the initial connection to the server fails; syslog-ng will try to reconnect later instead. 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 2.1.6 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 15 May '08

15 May '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Agent for Windows VERSION : 2.1.6 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : May 15, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Agent for Windows (2.1.6) has been released. For latest fixes in the 2.1.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 2.1.6 Thu, 15 May 2008 10:20:55 +0200 New features: * The agent automatically resolves Security Descriptor Strings (SIDs) to names in the log messages. Bugfixes: * Corrections in the handling of timezones and daylight-saving changes. * Improvements in the SSL-encryption support on Windows Vista. DOWNLOAD: Download the latest binaries from: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/binaries/syslog-ng-agent/

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syslog-ng Agent for Windows 2.2beta1 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 15 May '08

15 May '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Agent for Windows VERSION : 2.2beta1 SUMMARY : new beta release DATE : May 13, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new beta version of syslog-ng Agent for Windows (2.2beta1) has been released. This is a test release produced as part of our development process while preparing for the next stable release. You are recommended to upgrade to only if you wish to test the new features of this release. This release is not recommended for production use. CHANGES: Configuration: * The configuration interface of the syslog-ng Agent has been completely rewritten: now it is fully manageable from a Domain Controller using Group Policies. If the host is not a member of a domain, the agent can be configured from a Local Group Policy in the Microsoft Management Console. Message processing: * The syslog-ng Agent for Windows now supports message filtering, making it possible to drop selected messages. * The $USERNAME macro has been renamed to $EVENT_USERNAME. * Different message format can be assigned to eventlog and file sources. * Facility and priority handling has been unified. * Sources and filters can be enabled and disabled both globally and individually. * Case sensitivity of the filters and regular expressions can be set. File sources: * File sources can either monitor the file that was last modified in the folder, or monitor all files of the folder in parallel. Both types of file sources can be used recursively on folders with subfolders. * Environment variables like %SYSTEMROOT% are supported when specifying file sources. * New macros are available for file sources. Communication: * It is now possible to configure multiple destination servers to send the messages to a failover server if the primary destination becomes unaccessible. * It is now possible to send the messages to multiple destination server in parallel. That way every destination receives a copy of the same message. Every destination may have failover servers configured. The agent considers a message successfully sent if the primary destination or one of its failover servers receives the message. * The syslog-ng Agent for Windows supports the draft IETF protocol described in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-syslog-protocol- 23.txt. Adding unique message identifier to every message is also supported. NOTE: The Linux/UNIX version of syslog-ng 2.2 will also support this protocol. * The syslog-ng Agent automatically detects if its configuration has changed since the last restart and sends the hash of the new configuration to the server. * The agent reports connection and certificate errors into the event log. * Similarly to the Linux version, the agent now sends MARK messages to the server to indicate that the client host is alive but there are no log messages to send. Packaging: * Both .exe and .msi installer packages are available. Bugfixes: * Improvements in the SSL-encryption support on Windows Vista. * Reading of log files larger than 2GB is supported. * Improvements in the handling of 64bit timestamps. DOWNLOAD: To access this release, login to your MyBalaBit account at http://www.balabit.com/mybalabit/ or signup for a new account at http://www.balabit.com/mybalabit/signup and request an evaluation version at http://www.balabit.com/mybalabit/evalreq

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