------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACKAGE : syslog-ng VERSION : 3.5.0beta3 SUMMARY : new beta release DATE : Oct 11, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESCRIPTION: A new beta version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.5.0beta3) has been released. Being a beta release, testing is most appreciated, but running it in production is not advised. CHANGES: 3.5.0beta3 Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:21:38 +0200 This is the third BETA release of the syslog-ng 3.5 development branch, with stability fixes and other enhancements. While running in production is still not advised, testing is most appreciated. Incompatible changes ==================== Template escaping ----------------- Template escaping was changed in an incompatible way: previously, both the lexer and the template compiler used the '\' character for escaping, which was confusing. The template compiler uses '$$' to escape the '$' char, and '@@' to escape '@'. If a non-numeric value follows '@', a warning will be printed. Bugfixes ======== * syslog-ng should compile again on non-Linux platforms. * The flush() and fsync() options of the file destination were fixed, and they should work the same way now as they do in 3.3 and 3.4. * The hiredis library should be detected on the default include paths, so one does not necessarily need to specify --with-libhiredis non non-Debian systems. Said option was also made to work. * A memory corruption was fixed in the @STRING@ parser of db-parser(). * Excludes now work properly with value-pairs(), and they do not get ignored if the value to exclude is in the default set. Known Bugs ========== * The afstreams module is broken, does not compile, and does not work. This will be corrected before the final 3.5.1 release. Credits: ======== syslog-ng is developed as a community project, and as such it relies on volunteers to do the work necessarily to produce syslog-ng. Reporting bugs, testing changes, writing code or simply providing feedback are all important contributions, so please if you are a user of syslog-ng, contribute. These people have helped in this release: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Evan Rempel <erempel@uvic.ca> Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> Lucas McLane <lucas@clicksecurity.com> Oscar Muñoz Peter Czanik <czanik@balabit.hu> Sergey Shuman Viktor Juhasz <jviktor@balabit.hu> DOWNLOAD: You can download the source or binary packages from: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/... The documentation of the syslog-ng Open Source Edition is available in The syslog-ng Open Source Edition Administrator's Guide at http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/