------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/3.6.0al... 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/