------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng Premium Edition VERSION : 3.0.5 SUMMARY : new stable release DATE : Mar 24, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new stable version of syslog-ng Premium Edition (3.0.5) has been released. For latest fixes in the 3.0.x branch you are recommended to upgrade to this version. CHANGES: General * The timezone offset of applications other than syslog-ng was not adjusted correctly during the one-hour transition period of the daylight-saving changes. This has been corrected. * If the /var/log directory did not exist the syslog-ng could not log into the /var/log/messages file. Now this directory is automatically created during installation. * The semicolon (;), double-quote ("), and end-of-line (EOL) characters are automatically escaped in the syslog-ng STATS output. * The SDATA ID, PARAM and VALUE fields of RFC5424-formatted messages were not handled correctly in certain cases and might cause a segmentation fault. This has been corrected. Solaris * Corrected the start method of the syslog-ng initscript on Solaris 10 in case when the syslog-ng.pid file exists but syslog-ng is not running. * The syslog-ng application displayed an unnecessary error message if the dump device did not exist. This has been corrected. * Files and symbolic links are copied using piped tar instead of cp in order to retain the symbolic links. The old behavior caused significant increase of disk space requirements. * Corrections in the handling of the syslog_door file under Solaris 10. In Solaris 10 the file name of the door file has been changed to /var/run/syslog_door but the default syslog-ng configuration used the old file name /etc/.syslog_door. The upgrade process fixes this problem by creating a symbolic link. New installations will not be affected. HP-UX * The installer did not find and backup the old syslog rc symbolic links. This has been corrected. Debian Installer * The syslog-ng installer displayed an unnecessary error message. This has been corrected. .Run Installer * The syslog-ng application did not start after installation if there was an old (v2.1) license file under /opt/syslog-ng/etc/. Now this file is moved to the /opt/syslog-ng.old directory. * The unnecessary files under /opt/syslog-ng/share/doc/ belonging to other platforms have been deleted. DOWNLOAD: Download the latest binaries from: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server/upgr... 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 3.0 Administrator Guide at: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng&type=all&language[en]=en&