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syslog-ng Premium Edition 5 LTS (5.0.4) has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Premium Edition VERSION : 5 LTS (5.0.4) SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Feb 12, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Premium Edition (5 LTS (5.0.4)) has been released. For latest fixes in the 5.0.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 5 LTS (5.0.4) Wed, 12 February 2014 14:03:55 +0100 Fixed bugs: #31194 center entries not increasing in syslog-ng-ctl stats #31216 partial acknowledgement of RLTP blocks is never sent by the receiver FIPS 140-2 compliant version: Starting with the 5.0.4 release, we are offering a version of syslog-ng Premium Edition to customers that is built and shipped with the OpenSSL FIPS Object Module and as thus usable in environments where FIPS 140-2 compliant cryptography is required. This is a separate version and the original version is available that uses the standard OpenSSL library. For more details, see http://www.balabit.com/lp/fips For details on the fixed issues see our issue tracking page at https://www.balabit.com/mybalabit/fixed-bugs/revision/ DOWNLOAD: Download the latest binaries from: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server/sup… Note that to download the binaries, you have to login into your MyBalaBit account. The documentation of the syslog-ng application is available in The syslog-ng Premium Edition 5 LTS (5.0.4) Administrator Guide at: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server/sup… Kind Regards, BalaBit IT Security You are receiving this email because you showed interest in our products. Unsubscribe <http://www.balabit.com/newsletter/unsubscribe/4398019b4f2681fdce75b07177a63…> from the syslog-ng Premium Edition Technical Newsletter.

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syslog-ng Premium Edition 5 LTS (5.0.3) has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Premium Edition VERSION : 5 LTS (5.0.3) SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Jan 13, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Premium Edition (5 LTS (5.0.3)) has been released. For latest fixes in the 5.0.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. NOTE FOR USERS OF THE AGENT FOR WINDOWS: Starting with version 5 LTS we will be releasing maintainance releases of the Agent for Windows together with our regular maintainance releases. The changelog will always contain a list of bugfixes in all components, including the Agent. CHANGES: 5 LTS (5.0.3) Mon, 13 January 2014 13:49:25 +0200 Fixed bugs: #30307 Windows agent stops reading input after an invalid byte sequence #30962 %SYSTEMROOT% environment variable is not resolved in XML-configurations #31072 complex and long messages can cause syslog-ng to crash #31101 multiple clients using the same session_id in RLTP could cause unclosed connections to linger on the server side #31105 conditional rewrite included in multiple logpaths could cause syslog-ng to crash during reload #31115 MARK messages can be duplicated in the Windows Agent if internal messages are written to the eventlog #31131 closed connections on Windows leak socket handles #31163 reading from a wildcard file source not working properly on AIX #31174 relative symlinks in wildcard sources caused syslog-ng to crash For details on the fixed issues see our issue tracking page at https://www.balabit.com/mybalabit/fixed-bugs/revision/ DOWNLOAD: Download the latest binaries from: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server/sup… Note that to download the binaries, you have to login into your MyBalaBit account. The documentation of the syslog-ng application is available in The syslog-ng Premium Edition 5 LTS (5.0.3) Administrator Guide at: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server/sup… Kind Regards, BalaBit IT Security You are receiving this email because you showed interest in our products. Unsubscribe <http://www.balabit.com/newsletter/unsubscribe/4398019b4f2681fdce75b07177a63…> from the syslog-ng Premium Edition Technical Newsletter.

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syslog-ng 3.4.7 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.4.7 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Dec 24, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.4.7) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.4.x feature branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.4.7 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:07:34 +0100 This is the sixth bug-fix release for the 3.4.x series, with a number of important fixes over the 3.4.6 release. Upgrading to this release is highly recommended. Bugfixes ======== * Node flag propagation has been fixed, so flags(final) works the same as it did in 3.3, when embedded log statements are used too. * Using the value-pairs() framework, either via the $(format-json) template function or any of the destinations that make use of it, will now correctly skip and ignore empty values, even in SDATA. * A file descriptor and memory leak has been fixed in the syslog() destination. * The pdbtool program will warn in test mode when a test message has no program attribute. [BugZilla #263] * If the PID property is overwritten, syslog-ng will now stop using the cached MSGHDR value, and therefore, use the newly set PID instead, as it was supposed to. * The localport() option of various network destinations has been restored, and will work correctly now. [BugZilla #266] * The upstart service file in contrib has been updated to use a different process mode (background), as we do not need a supervisor when running under upstart. This also means that upstart will be far less confused. Credits ======= 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: Andras Mitzki <micek(a)balabit.hu> Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu> Chris Johnson <chris.johnson3(a)hp.com> Fabien Wernli <cpan(a)faxm0dem.org> Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu> Lucas McLane <lucas(a)clicksecurity.com> Peter Czanik <czanik(a)balabit.hu> Sebastiaan Hoogeveen <zebaz(a)xs4all.nl> Tobias Schwab <tobias.schwab(a)dynport.de> DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary 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/

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syslog-ng 3.5.3 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 24 Dec '13

24 Dec '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.5.3 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Dec 24, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.5.3) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.5.x feature branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.5.3 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:53:05 +0100 This is the second bug-fix release for the 3.5.x series, with a number of important changes over the previous release. Upgrading to this version is highly recommended. Bugfixes ======== * Node flag propagation has been fixed, so flags(final) works the same as it did in 3.3, when embedded log statements are used too. * Improvements were made to the build system, to make it more reliable when building in parallel. * Using the value-pairs() framework, either via the $(format-json) template function or any of the destinations that make use of it, will now correctly skip and ignore empty values, even in SDATA. * The configure script will correctly detect newer versions of json-c too, without compatibility symlinks being present. * A file descriptor and memory leak has been fixed in the syslog() destination. * The pdbtool program will warn in test mode when a test message has no program attribute. [BugZilla #263] * If the PID property is overwritten, syslog-ng will now stop using the cached MSGHDR value, and therefore, use the newly set PID instead, as it was supposed to. * The localport() option of various network destinations has been restored, and will work correctly now. [BugZilla #266] * The upstart service file in contrib has been updated to use a different process mode (background), as we do not need a supervisor when running under upstart. This also means that upstart will be far less confused. * Manual pages are now always included in the tarball. Credits ======= 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: Andras Mitzki <micek(a)balabit.hu> Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu> Chris Johnson <chris.johnson3(a)hp.com> Fabien Wernli <cpan(a)faxm0dem.org> Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu> Lucas McLane <lucas(a)clicksecurity.com> Peter Czanik <czanik(a)balabit.hu> Sebastiaan Hoogeveen <zebaz(a)xs4all.nl> Tobias Schwab <tobias.schwab(a)dynport.de> DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary 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/

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syslog-ng 3.5.2 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 29 Nov '13

29 Nov '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.5.2 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Nov 29, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.5.2) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.5.x feature branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.5.2 Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:09:40 +0100 This is the first bug-fix release for the 3.5.x series, with a number of significant fixes over the original 3.5.1 release. Upgrading to this release is highly recommended. Bugfixes ======== * The system() source has been fixed on Solaris and HP-UX: it correctly recognises the system on Solaris, and uses /dev/log (and not /dev/pipe) on HP-UX. * The system() source has much stricter requirements to select /dev/kmsg on Linux, so it won't choose it over /proc/kmsg unless the kernel really does support it. * The syslog-format() module has been fixed to only set the PROGRAM to "kernel" if all of the previous conditions apply, and the message is a local message. * The linux-kmsg-format parser (and system() on Linux 3.5+ as a consequence) will correctly calculate the timestamp of kernel messages on 32-bit systems now. * The sun-streams() source has been fixed, it compiles and works again. * A very rare and short race condition has been fixed in the pipe() source and destination modules, which could leave the pipe available with elevated permissions for a short time. * The SQL, MongoDB and SMTP modules were fixed to not cause a segmentation fault when loaded before the socket module. * A crash was fixed in the no-tls build of the socket destination driver. * It is now possible to specify the host() and port() parameters for the redis() destination. * Various stability fixes, such as: - A use-after-free condition was corrected in the queue backlog acknowledgement code. - Always use setsid() when detaching, even if we're not detaching from a TTY. - Memory leaks were fixed in the persist state handling code. - Changing stats-level() and reloading syslog-ng produced a crash, which has been fixed. Credits: ======== 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: Alexandre Lecuyer Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu> Daniel Gados <gdani(a)balabit.hu> Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu> Howard Tsai <htsai(a)skytap.com> Imre Lazar <imre(a)balabit.hu> Jakub Wilk <jwilk(a)debian.org> Laszlo Budai <lbudai(a)balabit.hu> Martin Bagge / brother <brother(a)bsnet.se> Matyas Koszik <koszik(a)atw.hu> Oscar Muñoz Otto Berger <otto(a)bergerdata.de> Viktor Juhasz <jviktor(a)balabit.hu> Viktor Tusa <tusa(a)balabit.hu> DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary 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/

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syslog-ng 3.4.6 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.4.6 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Nov 27, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.4.6) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.4.x feature branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.4.6 Wed, 27 Nov 2013 16:21:47 +0100 This is the fifth bug-fix release for the 3.4.x series, with a number of significant fixes over the 3.4.5 release. Upgrading to this release is highly recommended. Bugfixes ======== * The system() source has been fixed on Solaris and HP-UX: it correctly recognises the system on Solaris, and uses /dev/log (and not /dev/pipe) on HP-UX. * The sun-streams() source has been fixed, it compiles and works again. * A very rare and short race condition has been fixed in the pipe() source and destination modules, which could leave the pipe available with elevated permissions for a short time. * The SQL, MongoDB and SMTP modules were fixed to not cause a segmentation fault when loaded before the socket module. * The syslog-format() module has been fixed to only set the PROGRAM to "kernel" if all of the previous conditions apply, and the message is a local message. Credits: ======== 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: Alexandre Lecuyer Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu> Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu> Imre Lazar <imre(a)balabit.hu> Laszlo Budai <lbudai(a)balabit.hu> Matyas Koszik <koszik(a)atw.hu> Oscar Muñoz DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary 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/

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syslog-ng 3.5.1 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.5.1 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Nov 4, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The first stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.5.1) has been released. For the latest features in syslog-ng, you are encouraged to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.5.1 Mon, 4 Nov 2013 14:49:00 +0100 This is the first stable release in the 3.5 series, adding a number of features compared to 3.4, a result of about eight months of development. This release includes all the fixes of the recent 3.4.5 release, and a host of new features. Bugfixes since 3.5.0rc1 ======================= * A race condition in log message reference counting code that sometimes led to crashes was fixed. [#255] * A use-after-free error that sometimes happened after a reload, and caused memory corruption was also fixed. [#253] * patterndb was corrected not to create a new instance on reload: this way, the old one is not leaked, and db-parser() does not forget the correlation state, nor its idea of current time on reload. [#257] * The syslog-ng.spec file does not try to install the long-removed ChangeLog file anymore. Incompatible changes ==================== * Template escaping was changed in an incompatible way: previously, both the lexer and the template compiler used the '\' character for escaping, which was confusing. The template compiler uses '$$' to escape the '$' char, and '@@' to escape '@'. If a non-numeric value follows '@', a warning will be printed. * The replace() transformation function of value-pairs() was renamed to replace-prefix() to better reflect what it actually does. The old name remains as an obsolete alias, however. * The username() and password() options of the MongoDB destination were removed, they never did anything before, either. Major features since 3.4 ======================== Multi-line support ------------------ A major feature in the 3.5 release is the inclusion of support for multi-line messages, a feature that has been available in syslog-ng PE for a good while. With this, both indented and regexp-based multi-line support becomes available. For further information and examples, see the following blog post: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/09/05/what-is-cooking-in-syslo… STOMP destination ----------------- Joining the message-queue club, this new destination makes syslog-ng able to send events to any STOMP-capable message queuing server, such as Apache ActiveMQ. For further information about the destination, see this commit message: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-3.5/commit/82d19a4d4ad3f91e8214006f6ea… Redis destination ----------------- Developed during the Google Summer of Code 2013 program, this destination driver makes it possible to easily send commands to a Redis server. For further information and examples, please see the following blog post: http://tichygsoc.blogspot.hu/2013/09/the-road-so-far.html Template type hinting --------------------- While syslog-ng supported sending events to various datastores and queues for a while now (SQL first, MongoDB, JSON, and AMQP later), even if those supported other types of data, syslog-ng only ever sent strings. With template type hinting, it became possible to tell syslog-ng what type a certain template should be, so that the drivers can use that information in whatever way they see fit. This is currently implemented for the MongoDB driver and the $(format-json) template function only. For more information about type hinting and for examples, see the following post: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/09/05/what-is-cooking-in-syslo… Template options honored everywhere ----------------------------------- Until this release, there were situations where template options were ignored, such as filter expressions that use the comparsion operators, regexp based substitutions, incoming templates for parsers, the new value rewrite rules, SMTP values, some of the new drivers (stomp, amqp), and patterndb context-id. These all honor the global template options now, and per-driver options such as frac-digits and local-time-zone are available for drivers which did not have them before, like MongoDB. Support for unit suffixes in the configuration ---------------------------------------------- You no longer need to remember how many zeros to put after a big number in the syslog-ng configuration file, you can use unit suffixes, such as: log-fifo-size(2GiB) See the following post for more details: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/09/05/what-is-cooking-in-syslo… The Incubator project --------------------- Alongside the 3.5.1 release, we are pleased to announce the existence of the syslog-ng incubator project, which hosts additional modules and tools not merged into syslog-ng proper. These serve both as examples and as a staging area, but also makes it easier to try out new modules without patching or upgrading your syslog-ng version. The project's homepage is: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator Other features ============== * in-list() filter: this new filter function allows one to easily implement file-based white- and blacklists with a simple syntax: filter f_white { in-list("/path/to/file", value("HOST")); }; * A set of new string-related template functions are available: $(uppercase STRINGS...), $(lowercase STRINGS...) and $(replace-delimiter DELIMITERS NEW-DELIMITER TEXT). The first two do exactly what their names suggest, while the last one replaces all occurrences of any DELIMITERS within TEXT with the NEW-DELIMITER. * There is also a new $(env VARIABLE...) template function, which looks up the given variables in the environment. This is similar to using backticks in the configuration file, however the name of the environment variable with $(env) may contain macros too. * Support for Linux 3.5+'s /dev/kmsg was added, and the system() source will automatically detect whether to use it over /proc/kmsg. * For every correlated message in patterndb, the ${.classifier.context_id} property is automatically set to the context-id attribute of the matching rule. * The build system was completely redone, it is much faster, more reliable, and less verbose by default now. * Several systemd-related enhancements were made, including support for notification-based startup. This also means that when systemd support is compiled in, libsystemd-daemon becomes a new dependency. Known Bugs ========== * The afstreams module is broken, does not compile, and does not work. This will be corrected in a later maintenance release. Credits: ======== 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: Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana(a)gmail.com> Andras Tim <tia(a)balabit.hu> Anton Koldaev <koldaevav(a)gmail.com> Attila M. Magyar <athos(a)balabit.hu> Attila Nagy <bra(a)fsn.hu> Attila Szalay <sasa(a)balabit.hu> Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu> Balint Kovacs <blint(a)balabit.hu> Chris Johnson <chris.johnson3(a)hp.com> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert(a)komquats.com> Evan Rempel <erempel(a)uvic.ca> Fabien Wernli <cpan(a)faxm0dem.org> Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu> Gonzalo Paniagua <gonzalo.paniagua+slng1(a)acquia.com> Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo(a)di.uminho.pt> Laszlo Budai <lbudai(a)balabit.hu> Lucas McLane <lucas(a)clicksecurity.com> Marc Falzon <marc.falzon(a)cloudwatt.com> Martin <bmartin(a)lavabit.com> Michal Privoznik <miso.privoznik(a)gmail.com> Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_(a)gentoo.org> Nicolas Szalay <nico(a)rottenbytes.info> Oscar Muñoz Paul Dann <pdgiddie+balabit(a)gmail.com> Peter Czanik <czanik(a)balabit.hu> Peter Gyongyosi <gyp(a)balabit.hu> Robert Fekete <frobert(a)balabit.hu> Ryan Frederick Sergey Shuman Tamas Pal <folti(a)balabit.hu> Tibor Benke <btibi(a)balabit.hu> Tihamer Petrovics <tihameri(a)gmail.com> Valentijn Sessink <valentijn(a)sessink.nl> Viktor Juhasz <jviktor(a)balabit.hu> Viktor Tusa <tusa(a)balabit.hu> Vincent Brillault <spam(a)lerya.net> DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary 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/

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syslog-ng 3.4.5 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.4.5 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Nov 4, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.4.5) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.4.x feature branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.4.5 Mon, 4 Nov 2013 08:54:50 +0100 This is the fourth bug-fix release for the 3.4.x series, with important fixes over the 3.4.4 release. Upgrading to this release is highly recommended. Bugfixes ======== * A race condition in log message reference counting code that sometimes led to crashes was fixed. [#255] * An assertion that happened in certain situations when a subst() rewrite rule was used was fixed. [#256] * A use-after-free error that sometimes happened after a reload, and caused memory corruption was also fixed. [#253] * patterndb was corrected not to create a new instance on reload: this way, the old one is not leaked, and db-parser() does not forget the correlation state, nor its idea of current time on reload. [#257] * The syslog-ng.spec file does not try to install the long-removed ChangeLog file anymore. * A few harmless, but noisy compiler warnings have been eliminated. Features ======== * The JSON parser now understands NULL-typed keys, and ignores them. Credits: ======== 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: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu> Evan Rempel <erempel(a)uvic.ca> Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu> Gonzalo Paniagua <gonzalo.paniagua+slng1(a)acquia.com> Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo(a)di.uminho.pt> Michal Privoznik <miso.privoznik(a)gmail.com> Nicolas Szalay <nico(a)rottenbytes.info> DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary 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/

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syslog-ng 3.5.0rc1 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.5.0rc1 SUMMARY : new release candidate release DATE : Oct 24, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new release candidate of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.5.0rc1) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.5.x feature branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.5.0rc1 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:48:51 +0200 This is the first Release Candidate of the syslog-ng 3.5 development branch, with stability and reliability improvements. Being a release candidate, this release should be very close to production ready. Bugfixes ======== * The program() source and destination now properly terminates child processes on reload and shutdown. * The AMQP, SMTP, MongoDB, Redis and STOMP destinations now work correctly across reloads. * A rare race condition in the log message reference cache was corrected, fixing a crash. * The JSON parser now understands null-typed values, and ignores the whole key silently when it encounters one. * Using the subst() rewrite rule when the same source is present in multiple logpaths does not crash anymore. Miscellaneous ============= * The autogen.sh script is included in the distributed tarball. Known Bugs ========== * The afstreams module is broken, does not compile, and does not work. This will be corrected before the final 3.5.1 release. Credits: ======== 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: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu> Evan Rempel <erempel(a)uvic.ca> Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu> Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo(a)di.uminho.pt> Michal Privoznik <miso.privoznik(a)gmail.com> Nicolas Szalay <nico(a)rottenbytes.info> Ryan Frederick DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary 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/

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syslog-ng 3.4.4 has been released
by devel＠balabit.hu 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.4.4 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Oct 17, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.4.4) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.4.x feature branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: 3.4.4 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:16:40 +0200 This is the third bug-fix release for the 3.4.x series, with important fixes over the 3.4.3 release. Upgrading to this release is highly recommended. Bugfixes ======== * Fixed the log message reference counting in the AMQP destination, thus stopping it from crashing. * Fixed a possible crash in the AMQP destination that could be triggered when the AMQP server was unreachable at the time of a syslog-ng reload or shutdown. * pdbtool no longer segfaults when used with the --module switch [#249] * pdbtool test exits with a return value of 2 if the test value matched a different pattern than expected. [#241] * The inherit-properties attribute was added to the patterndb XSD. [#251] * A memory corruption was fixed in the @STRING@ parser of db-parser(). [#254] * Corrected a mistake in the afsocket module that lead to crashes on reload when unix-stream or unix-dgram destinations were in use. * Excludes now work properly with value-pairs(), and they do not get ignored if the value to exclude is in the default set. * The program() source and destination now correctly kill the started child on reload and shutdown. * The file destination does not use lseek() anymore. * When setting default template options, all random memory junk is cleared from the object first. * The order of header include paths was fixed in the test suite, so it should compile cleanly even in the presence of potentially conflicting headers. Features ======== * The $(format-json) template function, and anything else that may use the same value-pairs command line parser now allow specifying multiple scopes separated by commas (as opposed to having to use the --scope switch multiple times) [#248] Credits: ======== 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: Alexandre Biancalana <biancalana(a)gmail.com> Balazs Scheidler <bazsi(a)balabit.hu> Balint Kovacs <blint(a)balabit.hu> Evan Rempel <erempel(a)uvic.ca> Fabien Wernli <cpan(a)faxm0dem.org> Gergely Nagy <algernon(a)balabit.hu> Lucas McLane <lucas(a)clicksecurity.com> Marc Falzon <marc.falzon(a)cloudwatt.com> Michal Privoznik <miso.privoznik(a)gmail.com> Ryan Frederick Valentijn Sessink <valentijn(a)sessink.nl> DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary 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/

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