Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 29th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. FEATURED NEWS syslog-ng 3.5 is released ------------------------- Beginning last week syslog-ng 3.5 was finally declared stable, so 3.5.1 was released. Source is available from http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... if you want to compile syslog-ng yourself. Packages and ports for different Linux distributions and FreeBSD are already available from our 3^rd party page: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... New features of 3.5 were detailed here many times, so here are just the headlines: * Redis and Stomp destinations * multiline messages * type hinting For details, check the ChangeLog at http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.5.1/c... or algernon's blog at http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/11/06/syslog-ng-3.5.1/ Logging to Hadoop ----------------- Big data is gaining a momentum also in the logging world, so we made some experiments how syslog-ng can log to Hadoop. Even without a dedicated Hadoop destination driver one can already send logs to Hadoop and analyze them using Hadoop tools. For details, check https://tiborbenke.blogs.balabit.com/2013/11/the-syslog-ng-in-the-hadoop-era... syslog-ng EoL policy -------------------- The syslog-ng End of Life policy was updated recently, based on the experiences of syslog-ng stable maintainer, Gergely Nagy. Practically there are four different branches of syslog-ng maintained at any time, representing different level of maturity and support. More details are available at http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/10/22/syslog-ng-eol-dates/ And following the URLs below you can read about how this affects different Linux distributions and FreeBSD: Debian / Ubuntu: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2013-November/020884.html openSUSE / SLES: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2013- <https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2013-November/020880.html>November/020880.html <https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2013-November/020880.html> FreeBSD ports: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2013-November/020878.html SHORT NEWS: * Testing syslog-ng PE was never so easy: syslog-ng PE Quick Start Guide: http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/10/syslog-ng-pe-quick-start-guide/ * syslog-ng git reorganized: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2013-November/020875.html * Logging to Loggly using syslog-ng: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/11/loggly-and-syslog-ng/ NEW RELEASES * syslog-ng 3.5.1: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-November/000174.h... * syslog-ng 3.4.5: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-November/000173.h... Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com <mailto:documentation@balabit.com> To read this newsletter on-line, visit: http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/