hi, I've released syslog-ng 1.9.3, a new development release from syslog-ng. The NEWS entry below summarizes the most important changes. NOTE: this is a development release and although it seems to be quite stable in my environment, it is not yet recommended for production use. For casual users the 1.6.x branch is still recommended. The release is available at the usual place: http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/upgrades.bbq Also note that build dependencies have changed since 1.6.x: syslog-ng no longer requires libol, it uses GLib and EventLog instead. EventLog is available at http://www.balabit.com/downloads/syslog-ng/1.9/src/ as it has no separate webpage yet. GLib was originally developed for the GTK+ toolkit, but is available as a separate package from www.gtk.org Feedback as always is appreciated. News for the 1.9.3 release Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:38:07 +0100 Things are going faster these days, a mere three weeks between releases. I've been running syslog-ng 1.9.2 on my notebook, and was lucky enough to find one or two major bugs this way, but after fixing those things are looking good. I've seen _no_ crashes, though sometimes syslog-ng blocked on reading an external fd, thus causing a system deadlock. Apart from bugfixes the most important changes are that documentation is readded and somewhat even updated with the new features. It was funny rereading the sentences I wrote a couple of years earlier, fixed some embarassing grammatical mistakes. Now, back to the topic, the most important changes in this release are: * Solaris portability fixes, one of the snapshots already compiled cleanly under Solaris, even though I did not test the release itself. * Link against the libraries sitting in /usr statically. * Fixed possible deadlock on internal messages, it was a bad idea to use a pipe internally, it is now replaced with a conventional queue, and a special GSource. * Fixed another possible deadlock caused by some fds not being set to non-blocking mode. * EAGAIN and EINTR was not correctly handled in all cases, fixed those. * Readded documentation, added new macros, template statements, new flags. -- Bazsi