Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 25th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. FEATURED NEWS syslog-ng 3.4.2 is released --------------------------- Last week syslog-ng 3.4.2 was released, the first bugfix release in the 3.4 series. The most important fix is for a hang when suppress() was used. A full list of changes is available in git at: https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-3.4/commits/master Sources are available from git or as tgz from http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... For third-party binary packages for various Linux and UNIX platforms, visithttp://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... for 3^rd party binary packages for various distributions and UNIX variants. PatternDB git moved and updated ------------------------------- The BalaBit patterndb git moved recently to github. It’s available now at https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-patterndb instead of our server. That way the patterns are available next to the syslog-ng sources, and are also faster to download. We have also updated, reorganized and extended the available patterns. For details, read https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/05/patterndb-git-moved-and-updated/ syslog-ng is participating GSoC again ------------------------------------- Just as last year, syslog-ng is participating in the Google Summer of Code under the umbrella of the openSUSE project. Two of our candidates have the opportunity to code all summer long as GsoC students. Gyula Petrovicswill work on a faster MySQL destination, which works without libdbi. The other student, Tihamér Petrovics, will add a redis destination, which can not only store logs but also provide counters and help with statistics. Related blogs: http://petrovicsgyula.blogspot.com/ http://tichygsoc.blogspot.hu/ RSS destination --------------- RSS destination is a neat little feature of syslog-ng. It can store up to 100 pieces log lines, and can serve them as an Atom feed. This destination works as a FIFO, so if it is full, the last incoming log line kicks out the first one. Now you are able to read the alerts from your machines in your favorite RSS reader (well, unfortunately not in Google Reader). Available at https://github.com/talien/syslog-ng in the feature/rss-destination branch. SHORT NEWS: * Using a low power gadget as syslog-ng server: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/05/using-a-low-power- <https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/05/using-a-low-power-gadget-as-syslog-ng-server/>gadget-as-syslog-ng-server/ <https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/05/using-a-low-power-gadget-as-syslog-ng-server/> 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/