Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 16th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com <mailto:documentation@balabit.com> FEATURED NEWS syslog-ng 3.3.6 is released --------------------------- There was a new release for the syslog-ng stable line: version 3.3.6 There are mostly bugfixes in this release but also some smaller but long waited features: * the @include statement now accepts globs * upstream ivykis is used * better systemd support The change to upstream ivykis introduced a bug on FreeBSD and some other problems were also discovered. Version 3.3.7 is scheduled to arrive at the end of October, and there is now a 3.3.6.90, aka 3.3.7RC available for testing. Announcement for 3.3.6: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2012-August/000146.htm... Announcement for 3.3.6.90: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-September/019365.html syslog-ng 3.4 news ------------------ Although there aren't any new alpha releases yet, there are already plenty of news for the development branch aswell! * The MongoDB destination received a major speed boost, and work is underway to make it even more performant. * The $(format-json) function now supports nested structures * There's a MAC address parser available for patterndb * A couple of new template functions were introduced, $(md5), $(sha1) and others. * The unit tests were improved upon greatly, and many many bugs were squashed aswell. For the complete list of changes, you can browse the commit messages at https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-3.4/commits/master And while there, check out the sources and give it a try, feedback is appreciated, help us make syslog-ng even better! SSB 3 LTS: wildcard search in logspaces --------------------------------------- The third important new feature in SSB 3 LTS is the ability to search within log messages using wildcard characters. It is indeed a small and simple change on the surface, but brings a lot of new possibilities. Read about the details at http://gyp.blogs.balabit.com/2012/07/new-features-in-ssb-3-lts-wildcard-sear... OTHER SHORT NEWS * syslog-ng ports in FreeBSD explained: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2012/09/syslog-ng-rc/ * syslog-ng will be presented at two conferences in October: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012 and http://conference.opensuse.org/ NEW RELEASES: * syslog-ng OSE 3.3.6: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2012-August/000146.htm... * syslog-ng OSE 3.3.6.90: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-September/019365.html CASE STUDY: * University of Victoria: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng_cs_uvic_en.pdf ARCHIVE http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/