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syslog-ng 2.0rc4 released
by Balazs Scheidler 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Hi, I have released 2.0rc4 with the latest bugfixes. The NEWS entry is below. I'd appreciate feedback on the stability of this version, so that I can finally prepare a 2.0.0 final. 2.0rc4 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:33:55 +0200 Bugfixes: * Another leak fix in 2.0rc2 caused syslog-ng to crash when a destination TCP/unix-stream connection was broken. * Fixed EOF detection for destination connections. -- Bazsi

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syslog-ng 2.0rc2 released
by Balazs Scheidler 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Hi, I'm proud to announce that syslog-ng 2.0rc2 has been released. Hopefully this is the last rc before 2.0.0 final. Here's the list of changes: 2.0rc2 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:06:30 +0200 Bugfixes: * Fixed a filter evaluation bug on platforms that have unsigned characters by default. * Fixed a denial of service problem when a zero sized UDP packet is received (was taken as an EOF and the input channel was closed). * Fixed NL handling for datagram transports. * Fixed IPv6 name resolution. * Fixed "Duplicate stats counter" message upon reload for program() destinations. * Fixed various memory leaks. -- Bazsi

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syslog-ng 2.0rc1 released
by Balazs Scheidler 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

Dear syslog-ng users, I'm proud to announce that syslog-ng 2.0rc1 has been released. The new release is based on a completely rewritten code base, and aims to be a drop-in replacement for syslog-ng 1.6.x. Highlights over 1.6.x: - Support for extended timestamps with year, timezone information and subsecond granularity. - Flow control support: enabling flow control end-to-end, on the whole message path leaves TCP connection breaks the only source of message loss. - Better performance: various data structures and algorithms have been optimized. - IPv6 and multicast support. - and more... This release has already been tested in production environment, with high performance demands. Here is a list of user-visible changes since 1.9.11: 2.0rc1 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:52:50 +0200 Some minor new features: * Added LEVEL_NUM and FACILITY_NUM macros. * Added optional() support for destination files to avoid flooding the log if a given destination cannot be opened. Bugfixes: * Fixed priority range filter evaluation. * Portability fixes for various OSs (Solaris, AIX and HP-UX) and architectures (64bit CPUs) * In the case of a broken connection don't reconnect immediately, but wait some time specified by time_reopen() to match 1.6.x behaviour. * Fixed a reproducible segmentation fault in UNIX domain socket destinations. * Fixed dir_group() handling. Other changes: * Documentation updates. -- Bazsi

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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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syslog-ng 1.6.10 released
by Balazs Scheidler 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi, As some of you might have read it on my blog (http://bazsi.blogspot.com) I have released syslog-ng 1.6.10, the next stable version in the 1.6.x series, with the following changes: News for the 1.6.10 release Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:43:08 +0200 * Updated documentation, documentation is now generated from XML instead of SGML. * Scalability improvements for many parallel syslog connections tunable using the time_sleep() global option. -- Bazsi

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blog available
by Balazs Scheidler 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hi, After giving some thought to the idea I decided to start my blog where I'm planning to publish syslog-ng related things as well. If you are interested you can find it at: http://bazsi.blogspot.com/ blogger.com has RSS feeds, so you can use that as well. -- Bazsi

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syslog-ng 1.9.9 released
by Balazs Scheidler 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Hi, I have released syslog-ng 1.9.9, a version marking the feature freeze towards syslog-ng 2.0.0. This is still a "development" release however this is more suited for production use than previous versions. The list of user-visible changes summarizing the changes since 1.9.8 can be found below. Please note that previous snapshots (dated after 2006-02-24) contained a severe problem that might have caused crashes which I have fixed in this release, but is not in the NEWS entry as 1.9.8 did not have this problem. The release is available at the usual place: http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/ The latest documentation is not yet available on the webpage, you'll have to wait for that till tomorrow when the next snapshot will be generated. 1.9.9 Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:49:47 +0100 Some minor new features: * Added optional() option to pipe and unix drivers to make syslog-ng start even if the required directories/files do not exist. * Added DNS name resolution to udp and tcp targets. * Added a stats() keyword for 1.6.x compatibility. * Added processed counters for source/destination groups and the log center. * Added normalize_hostnames() option which converts all hostnames to lower case. * Added PID macro. * Added kernel flag to sources to indicate that messages coming from the source should default to 'kern.notice' instead of 'user.notice' * Added frac_digits() option which controls how many digits are printed in second fractions. * Added time_sleep() option to add a fixed latency to the poll loop required in some tuning situations. * Documentation updates. Changes: * Removed stats entries for files as they never lose messages and it would only clutter the log statistics output. * The meaning of the undocumented keep_timestamp() option was changed and documented, it controls whether syslog-ng uses the time of reception or the time included in the log message. Bugfixes: * Fixed port unreachable handling for UDP destinations. * Fixed PRI macro processing as it included the local hostname in addition to the priority value because of a missing break statement. * UNIX domain sockets are kept alive across SIGHUPs by default. * Fixed a possible segmentation fault on SIGHUP. * Fixed timezone extraction from incoming messages with ISO timestamp (only this syslog-ng can send these currently) * Fixed HOST_FROM, FULLHOST_FROM, SOURCEIP, DATE, R_DATE, S_DATE macros (some were still not implemented others worked incorrectly in some circumstances) * Fixed fractions of a second processing. -- Bazsi

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syslog-ng 1.9.7 & eventlog 0.2.4 released
by Balazs Scheidler 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Hi, I have released the next version of the syslog-ng development releases, this time version 1.9.7. The release can be found at the usual place at http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/ The NEWS entry is quoted below: 1.9.7 Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:41:58 +0100 * Reworded documentation on flush_lines & flush_timeout. * Fixed a possible segmentation fault on SIGHUP. * Fixed a timezone normalization problem. * Fixed Solaris support. * Fixed MARK support to emit a single mark message only (it was previously implemented for all sources) * Added Debian packaging files. -- Bazsi

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