Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 3rd 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 OSE 3.3 development ----------------------------- The previous month did not see a new syslog-ng 3.3 alpha or beta release, but development still went on. There were many important bugfixes and performance improvements. Also, most of the patches from the community were merged, including value-pairs(), mongo-db updates and JSON support. There is now a feature freeze in effect, so new features go now into the freshly opened syslog-ng 3.4 repository. The current version can be checked out out from git, which has regular updates at http://git.balabit.hu/?p=bazsi/syslog-ng-3.3.git;a=summary The mailing list archive with some more patches: http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/ Blog about the feature freeze: http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2011/05/syslog-ng-3-3-feature-freeze-3-4-bran... Blog series on web GUIs for syslog-ng ------------------------------------- Web based GUIs for syslog-ng is a hot topic recently, so a new blog series was started. This month I'll cover a new challenger: ELSA, which has patterndb at its heart.If you have any suggestions what else to cover, please let us know! ELSA: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2011/05/elsa-web-interface-for-syslog-ng-an... Support the syslog-ng project with your testimonial! ---------------------------------------------------- We send syslog-ng T-Shirts for the best use-cases and testimonials. We are especially interested in how you use syslog-ng: your environment, performance metrics, the UNIX platforms that you use and anything that you deem interesting about your setup. This is your possibility to influence the syslog-ng development process and to help the syslog-ng project. http://www.balabit.com/testimonials/send OTHER SHORT NEWS * Maintenance policy update for syslog-ng OSE: http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2011/05/maintenance-policy-update-for-syslog-... * Algernon's syslog-ng status update: http://algernon.blogs.balabit.com/2011/05/veni-vidi-vici/ NEW RELEASES * new 3.2 OSE bugfix release: http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2011-May/016576.html RECENT WHITEPAPERS * How to establish a distributed syslog architecture in heterogeneous environment with syslog-ng Premium Edition? http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-v4.0-whitepaper-distr... * Get familiar with the advantages of using syslog-ng Premium Edition to collect system log (syslog) messages into an SQL database, such as Oracle or MySQL. http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-v4.0-whitepaper-syslo... ARCHIVE http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/