August 2014 - syslog-ng-announce

syslog-ng 3.6.0alpha3 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.6.0alpha3 SUMMARY : new alpha release DATE : Aug 19, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The third alpha version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.6.0alpha3) has been released. This being an alpha release, testing is most welcome, but production use is not recommended! CHANGES: 3.6.0alpha3 Released: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:33:00 +0200 This is the third alpha release of the upcoming syslog-ng OSE 3.6 branch. It is expected to be the last alpha release, with the first beta in about two weeks. This release contains a number of important features and bugfixes: Changed defaults ---------------- * The `flush-lines()` setting now defaults to *100*, rather than *1*, for increased speed. Features -------- * The `system()` source will now parse `@cim` marked messages as JSON, if the JSON module is available at run-time. This improves inter-operation with other software that uses the *Common Information Model*. ### Features from the [Incubator][incubator] * The `$(or)` template function that returns the first non-empty argument is now included in syslog-ng itself. * The `$(padding)` template function, to pad text with custom padding to a given length is also included. * The `$(graphite-output)` template function, to be used for sending metrics to [Graphite][graphite] was ported over from the Incubator. The `graphite()` destination SCL block is also available now, to make it even easier to talk to Graphite. * The `riemann()` destination, which allows sending metrics to the [Riemann][riemann] monitoring system was also ported over from the Incubator. [graphite]: http://graphite.wikidot.com/ [incubator]: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator [riemann]: http://riemann.io/ ### Threaded destinations A number of features were implemented for all threaded destinations: `amqp()`, `mongodb()`, `redis()`, `riemann()`, `smtp()` and `stomp()`. * The destinations gained support for `SEQNUM` persistence: the counter will be preserved across reloads and restarts. * A new option called `retries()` was implemented for all of these, which controls how many times a message delivery is retried before dropping it. * The `throttle()` option is now implemented, and works for all of the aforementioned destination drivers. * The message delivery loop was optimised to do less sleep/wakeup cycles, which should make the drivers not only faster, but more CPU friendly too. Bugfixes -------- * The basicfuncs module was fixed to work correctly on 32-bit architectures. * The `stored` statistics is no longer incremented by various drivers when they mean `processed`. * The type hinting feature is now more picky about what kind of type hints it accepts, allowing one to use template functions in - for example - `$(format-json)` pairs. Miscellaneous changes --------------------- * We now ship a "Contributors Guide" in the `CONTRIBUTING.md` file. Credits ------- syslog-ng is developed as a community project, and as such it relies on volunteers, to do the work necessary 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. We would like to thank the following people for their contribution: Andras Mitzki, Balazs Scheidler, Fabien Wernli, Gergely Nagy, Laszlo Budai, Peter Czanik, Robert Fekete, Tibor Benke, Viktor Juhasz, Viktor Tusa. DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary packages from: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.6.0a… 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/

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syslog-ng 3.6.0alpha2 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.6.0alpha2 SUMMARY : new alpha release DATE : Aug 11, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The second alpha version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.6.0alpha2) has been released. This being an alpha release, testing is most welcome, but production use is not recommended! CHANGES: 3.6.0alpha2 Released: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:02:59 +0200 This is the second alpha release of the upcoming syslog-ng OSE 3.6 branch, with more internal changes and features compared to the previous 3.6.0alpha1 release. Above the changes in the latest 3.5.6 stable version, this release contains the following noteworthy changes: Changed defaults ---------------- * Threaded mode is now **enabled** by default. To turn it off, use `threaded(no)` in the global options section. * The versioning of the `libsyslog-ng` internal library has changed: instead of always using the current release number, we will now try to maintain ABI compatibility during the lifetime of a stable branch. Therefore, we use only the first two components of our version as the base of the library version. Another number will be part of the SONAME too, but that will only change when we break compatibility. The SONAME is currently set to `libsyslog-ng-3.6.so.0`, and will remain the same during alpha and beta releases, even when the ABI changes. We will start bumping the version after the first stable release from this branch, if needed. Features -------- * The new `systemd-syslog()` source replaces the former implicit support for the same thing. Users who use systemd are advised to use either the `system()` source, or this new one when they want to receive logs from systemd via the `/run/systemd/journal/syslog` socket. ### SMTP destination changes * The `smtp()` destination now supports a `retries()` option, which controls how many times a message delivery will be attempted before dropping it. * The destination no longer counts delivered messages as `stored`. * The templates used in the destination now honor the time-zone settings. * The driver will abort if required options (any of `to()`, `cc()`, `bcc()` and `from()`, and `subject()` and `body()`) are not set. Bugfixes -------- * The `file()` and `network()` (including `tcp()` et al) sources will now properly set the `$SOURCE` macro. * To build syslog-ng with the MongoDB destination, libmongo-client version 0.1.8+ is now required. (The internal copy has been updated accordingly.) * The UNIX credential extracting feature was ported to FreeBSD, syslog-ng now compiles, and has support for this feature. (The previous support in alpha1 was sadly incomplete.) * The `pdbtool merge` command will now generate version 4 patterndb files. Credits ------- syslog-ng is developed as a community project, and as such it relies on volunteers, to do the work necessary 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. We would like to thank the following people for their contribution: Fabien Wernli, Gergely Nagy, Laszlo Budai, Peter Czanik, Tibor Benke, Viktor Juhasz, Viktor Tusa. DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary packages from: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.6.0a… 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/

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syslog-ng 3.5.6 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.5.6 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Aug 5, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.5.6) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.5.x feature branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.5.6 Mon, 4 Aug 2014 13:39:42 +0200 This is the sixth bug-fix release for the 3.5.x series. Upgrading from earlier versions is highly recommended, as the changes in this release are very small, yet, also very important for most platforms and workloads. Bugfixes ======== * A major memory leak was fixed in the value-pairs framework, which affects $(format-json), MongoDB, AMQP and more. The leak was supposed to be fixed in 3.5.5, but due to a merging mistake, it was missed. * The configure script now detects Linux capabilities properly, there is no need to use --disable-linux-caps on non-Linux platforms anymore. * The pdbtool merge command will now generate version 4 patterndb files, instead of version 3. Credits ======= syslog-ng is developed as a community project, and as such it relies on volunteers to do the work necessary 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: Fabien Wernli Gergely Nagy Peter Czanik DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary packages from: http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.5.6 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/

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