Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 27th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. FEATURED NEWS syslog-ng 3.5 beta1 is released ------------------------------- The first beta of syslog-ng 3.5 was released today. It has many internal rework and also many user visible new features. Here you can read just the headlines, for a complete list and details please visit the NEWS file ( https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-3.5/blob/master/NEWS ) or this blog post: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/09/05/what-is-cooking-in-syslog... * Stomp destination * Multiline support * Blacklist support * and many more As usual, testing is greatly appreciated as it helps to iron out problems before the final release! Sources are available from git ( https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-3.5 ) 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/... .Debian/Ubuntu and openSUSE packages are expected to be available in the coming days. syslog-ng incubator project --------------------------- The syslog-ng module incubator (Incubator henceforth) is a collection of tools and modules for syslog-ng that for one reason or the other, are not part of the official repository. This serves both as a staging ground for experimental modules, and as a repository of plugins that are not aimed at upstream inclusion. It's also an example of a third party syslog-ng module. Sources are available at https://github.com/algernon/syslog-ng-incubator syslog-ng GSoC: finished successfully! -------------------------------------- The coding time for Google Summer of Code isover and both of our students finished their projects successfully. The redis destination is tomerged to syslog-ng 3.5 before the beta2 releaseand the high performance mysql destination is expected to follow it soon.A summary blog post of their work is due to appear next week at http://petrovicsgyula.blogspot.com/ and http://tichygsoc.blogspot.hu/ syslog-ng 3.5 draft documentation --------------------------------- A draft version of syslog-ng 3.5 documentation was also released today. It contains some of the new features. It is available in many forms: * PDF: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-ose-3.5-guides/en/sys... * HTML: http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.5-guide... * Single page HTML: http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.5-guide... SHORT NEWS: * syslogng-web, a simple and fast log viewer: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/08/syslog-ng-web-a-simple-and-fast-log... * how to monitor a directory of log files: http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/09/10/howto-monitor-a-directory... NEW RELEASES * syslog-ng 3.5beta1: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-September/000166.... 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/