Over a week ago I ran a Twitter poll and also asked around here on the mailing list about if/how you use Java in syslog-ng. No responses here and only a few "no" responses on Twitter. We know about some users, who use the Java bindings, but not our modules. Any previous users of Java modules I asked directly told me, that they already changed to kafka-c and elasticsearch-http.

A few days later Fedora announced, that they are removing JDK 1.8 support from Rawhide. So, here is a list of changes and plans for the official distro syslog-ng packages and for my unofficial packages:

removed Java support completely from the official Fedora Rawhide package (no support for JDK 1.11 yet in syslog-ng), to avoid dropping syslog-ng from the distro
my unofficial packages will follow, once JDK 1.8 is really removed from the distro (end of July)
keep Java bindings everywhere else, as long as 1.8 is available
removed java modules (drivers) from all of my unofficial packages (Java-based Elasticsearch, Kafka, HDFS)

My syslog-ng git snapshot packages (https://syslog-ng.com/blog/rpm-packages-from-syslog-ng-git-head/) already have these changes, and my 3.28 packages will be derived from these, once the release is available.

Bye,

Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@oneidentity.com>
Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream
https://syslog-ng.com/community/
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