Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 20th 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 Video: a short introduction to syslog-ng ---------------------------------------- There is a video series in the work to introduce the basics of syslog-ng. The first video is online now, you can watch it at http://youtu.be/1Ff6tY1SvW8 New videos will be published on the same Youtube channel. You are very welcome to subscribe to receive notifications about further syslog-ng videos and other interesting content. syslog-ng OSE configurator -------------------------- syslog-ng OSE configurator is a web application, which can generate a syslog-ng OSE configuration with only a few mouse clicks. Right now it can only deal with global options, sources, destinations and of course with logpath. There are plans to add filters and templates in the future. For more information and links to sources and the configurator, check the authors blog at http://micek.blogs.balabit.com/en/2013/01/syslog-ng-ose-configurator/ syslog-ng 3.4 RC2 is released ----------------------------- Version 3.4 RC2was released today. Compared to the RC1release, it has some minor bugfixes, mainly related to fixing compile problems of different features and platforms. This also involves an update to the bundled ivykis library from version 0.30 to 0.36. For a summary about what's new in the 3.4 releases, check Bazsi's blog at http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2012/12/syslog-ng-3-4beta1-released/ For a list of changes, check the announcement at https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000153.ht... For binary package availability check our 3^rd party binary page at http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... At the time of this writing there are RC1 packages for Debian, openSUSE, Ubuntu, FreeBSD ports are updated and there is a Fedora source rpm. These should be updated to RC2 in the coming days. OpenSUSE Factory already features syslog-ng 3.4 RC1 and will be updated to RC2 after openSUSE 12.3beta1 is out. SHORT NEWS: * Right now 3.4 is available only in source form for Fedora. Check how you can compile it at http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/01/for-the-impatient-syslog-ng-3-4rc1-o... * FreeBSD 9.1 is released, news about the new release and syslog-ng are available at http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/01/freebsd-9-1-and-syslog-ng/ * Development of 3.5 is already started. A rough roadmap is available at http://huboard.com/algernon/syslog-ng/board (GitHub account required) NEW RELEASES: * syslog-ng OSE 3.4 RC2: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000153.ht... * syslog-ng OSE 3.3.8: http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000152.htm... ARCHIVE http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/