Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 32th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. FEATURED NEWS Google Summer of Code (GsoC) ---------------------------- This year the syslog-ng project was accepted to GSoC as a mentoring organization. We vould like to thank to the Debian and openSUSE projects for vouching for us and openSUSE to let us participate previous years under the openSUSE umbrella. We don't know yet the number of students we can mentor, but we already have a nice number of project ideas and students who expressed interest. It's not yet too late to browse the ideas page _https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/wiki/GSoC2014-Idea-&-Project-list_ and write a project proposal to the syslog-ng mailing list. Contact information is available at _https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/wiki/GSoC2014_ syslog-ng incubator updates --------------------------- The syslog-ng incubator is a collection of tools and modules which are not (yet) part of the official repository. Version 0.2.1 was released recently with many bugfixes, advanced LUA related features, support for FreeBSD and a python script based ElasticSearch destination. The syslog-ng incubator is available in many ways. First of all, the source is available in git at _https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator_and as a release tgz at _http://packages.madhouse-project.org/syslog-ng/incubator/syslog-ng-incubator... There are also packages for openSUSE and Fedora with riemann support available in a subpackage. To use it, visit one of the below web pages and add the necessary repositories, which also have syslog-ng 3.5 and the riemann C client available. Fedora: _http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng35/_ openSUSE: _https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:czanik:syslog-ng35_ A FreeBSD port is also work in progress, once ready, it will be committed to sysutils/syslog-ng-incubator. Riemann support is not included. syslog-ng at conferences ------------------------ The next confirmed events are: * Open Source Data Center Conference, 8-10 April, Berlin, Germany: _http://www.netways.de/osdc/_, Giving a talk titled "Monitoring with syslog-ng, Riemann and Kibana" There will be two developers present, so if anyone attends, and has Incubator, Lua, Riemann, etc. related questions, we'll be happy to answer. * Linux Open Admin Days, 5-6 April, Antwerp, Belgium: _http://loadays.org/_, Giving a talk titled “Babel Fish for DevOps: syslog-ng”. Those, who visited FOSDEM will be familiar with the basis of the presentation, but this time with a lot more details and configuration examples thanks to the more available time. * Infosecurity Europe, 29 April - 1 May, London, United Kingdom: _http://www.infosec.co.uk/_, Giving a talk titled "Finding method in the madness: the challenges of the automatic classification of log messages". The talk will be given by Balazs Scheidler (Bazsi) who you will also be able to find at the BalaBit booth at the event. * LinuxTag, 8-10 May, Berlin, Germany: _http://linuxtag.org <http://linuxtag.org/>_, Giving a talk titled "Finding method in the madness: the challenges of the automatic classification of log messages". BalaBit will also be sponsoring the event so you'll be able to find us and get T-shirts and talk with our engineers. The talk will be a revised version of the talk given a week before at Infosecurity Europe. NEW RELEASES * syslog-ng incubator 0.2.1: _https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-incubator/blob/master/NEWS_ * syslog-ng OSE 3.5.4: _https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-March/000182.html... * syslog-ng OSE 3.5.4.1: _https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-March/000183.html... * syslog-ng PE 4.0.7: _https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2014-March/000181.html... 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/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik