3.19.1

Features

• HTTP load balancer (#2347)
• Slack destination (#2451)
• Add Cisco Catalyst formatted triplets support to cisco-parser() (#2394)
• Add RFC5424 syslog support to the system() source (FreeBSD 12.0 support) (#2430)
• Add network interface() option to network sources (#2389)
• Add so-reuseport() to network drivers (#2379)
• Enable supporting HTTP redirects (#2136)

Bugfixes

• Fix frequent disconnects of syslog() with TLS (#2432)
• Fix possible refcount leak during reload/shutdown (#2434)
• Fix message storm on trace level (#2425)
• Fix use after free in file destinations (time-reap) (#2418)
• Fixing a few memleaks in the Java destination (#2417)
• Fix telegram dst default ca dir (#2416)
• Fix prefix handling in $(list-concat) and $(strip) (#2405)
• Fixing an eventfd leak with ivykis<=0.38 (threaded destinations) (#2404)
• Process flush result after worker thread exits (threaded destinations) (#2402)
• hdfs: do not try to write unopened file (#2391)
• Fix leaks in redis() destination (#2383)
• Block location tracking fixes (#2378)
• Fix $(basename) and $(dirname) in the presence of a prefix (#2371)
• Fixing a false positive corruption detection in non-reliable diskq (#2356)
• Check if /proc/kmsg can be opened in system-source (#2408)
• Fix include guard in systemd-journal (#2445)
• Remove hexadecimal and octal number parsing from templates (#2401)

Other changes

• Do not load certs from default CURL ca-dir by default (http() destination) (#2410)
• Disable SSL compression by default (#2372)
• Flush lines cleanup (#2386, #2392)
• Refine json-parser() log messages to be less alarming (#2437)
• Move some messages to trace (#2358)
• Make include-path more discoverable (#2426)
• Adding build flag -Wmissing-format-attribute and -Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn (#2423)
• Rewrite filter unit tests based on criterion (#2422)
• PytestFramework in Travis (#2415)
• syslog-ng-mod-java debian pkg should depend on headless jre (#2388)
• Add contextual data error reporting improvements & csv-scanner refactor (#2373)
• Afsocket remove unused functions/bitfields (#2363)
• Afsocket minor cleanup/refactor (#2355)
• Riemann worker (#2313)
• Afsql threaded dest driver (#2097)
• dbld: do not mount .gitconfig if missing (#2419)
• dbld: Add missing docbook-xsl packages (#2398)
• dbld: update criterion to 2.3.3 (#2396)
• dbld: Remove "proposed" Ubuntu repository from enable_dbgsyms() (#2382)
• dbld: Add new target "list-builder-images" (#2381)
• dbld: Support Ubuntu Bionic and update existing images (#2318)
• dbld: release target should use the default image (#2464)

Notes to the developers

• PytestFramework: Add initial test framework (#1940)

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.

We would like to thank the following people for their contribution:

Abder Benbachir, Andras Mitzki, Antal Nemes, Attila Szakacs, Balazs Scheidler,
Gabor Nagy, Gergely Tonté, JP Vossen, Juhasz Viktor, Laszlo Budai,
Laszlo Szemere, László Várady, Norbert Takacs, Peter Kokai, Zoltan Pallagi.

https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.19.1

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