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PACKAGE : syslog-ng
VERSION : 3.4.0alpha3
SUMMARY : new stable release
DATE : Jun 30, 2012
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DESCRIPTION:
A new version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.4.0alpha3) has been
released. For latest fixes in the 3.4.x branch you are recommended to
upgrade to this version.
CHANGES:
3.4.0alpha3
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:32:54 +0200
Features:
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* Added set-tag() and clear-tag() rewrite rules.
* Added a marker() option to the json-parser(), which indicates that
a message is indeed has a json payload. Used to implement a
cee-style payload parser.
http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2012/05/cee-prototype-and-a-show-case-for-th…
* The system source automatically detectd systemd and defines the
proper log socket accordingly. Also, if the system() source is not
used, a workaround to use the systemd supplied log socket instead
of /dev/log was applied. This kicks in if syslog-ng is running
under systemd and its config version is 3.3 or less.
* Support for FreeBSD's utmpx database.
Featured ported from the Premium Edition
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* Added 12 hour time related macros $AMPM and $HOUR12
* Added $USEC and $MSEC macros for micro and milliseconds
respectively.
* Added $SYSUPTIME that expands to the time since syslog-ng started
in the number of 1/100th of a second (just like in the SNMP
sysUptime value).
* db-parser(): added field extraction to the matching or program
names
* Added support for Cisco extended timestamp format, one that
includes time synchronity information and sequence numbers.
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/046f90e76137f31e61412d24b9920…
* Added support for mark-mode() that allows the customization how
MARK messages are generated.
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/c38d7ad9a2d40650e243ec29c6b3e…
Bugfixes:
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* Fixed a possible segmentation fault in threaded mode when
dns-cache-hosts() is used.
* Incorrect encoding of data caused UDP and unix-dgram() receives to
be erroneously closed, so no further data would be received. This
has been fixed. Incorrect encoding of incoming data causes the
connection for connection oriented transports (like tcp() and
unix-stream()) to be closed, but the same condition is ignored for
datagram oriented transports (like udp() or unix-dgram()).
* Accept empty source and destination object in the configuration
file.
* Fixed a linking issue when using the SMTP destination.
* Ignore SIGHUP in the supervisor process.
* Fixed fsync() behaviour for destination files.
* Fixed a possible NULL deref in db-parser() correllation when
context-scope is not defined.
Other changes:
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* Added a --disable-smtp configure option.
* Integrated unit test refactorization changes from the BalaBit
syslog-ng and SSB teams.
* Added systemd alias "syslog" to the unit file.
Credits:
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syslog-ng is developed as a community project, and as such it relies
on volunteers to do the work necessarily to produce syslog-ng.
Reporting bugs, testing changes, writing code or simply providing
feedback are all important contributions, so please if you are a
user of syslog-ng, contribute.
These people have helped in this release:
Alexander Komyagin <komyagin(a)altell.ru>
EgonB <egon(a)local.ee>
Evan Rempel <erempel(a)uvic.ca>
Imre Lazar <imre(a)balabit.hu>
Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo(a)di.uminho.pt>
Mark Ulmer <mark.ulmer(a)apollogrp.edu>
Patrick Hemmer
Peter Czanik <czanik(a)balabit.hu>
Attila Magyar <athos(a)balabit.hu>
Attila Nagy <naat(a)balabit.hu>
Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu>
Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu>
Juhasz Viktor <jviktor(a)balabit.hu>
Peter Gyorko <gyorkop(a)balabit.hu>
Viktor Juhasz <jviktor(a)balabit.hu>
DOWNLOAD:
You can download the source packages from:
http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system…
The documentation of the syslog-ng Open Source Edition is available in
The syslog-ng Open Source Edition Administrator's Guide at
http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/