Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 17th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com <mailto:documentation@balabit.com> FEATURED NEWS New AMQP destination driver --------------------------- An important milestone in syslog-ng's history is the AMQP destination driver, which is the first complete module contributed by a third party, and was not originated from within BalaBit! The destination allows syslog-ng to publish messages (using various exchange types) to an AMQP server such as RabbitMQ using an intuitive method: sending the headers selected by value-pairs() as headers, thereby solving the problem of how to serialize the payload: don't. For more information about the driver, see the announcement at: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-October/019483.html A comparison of PE diskbuffer and the AMQP driver: http://algernon.blogs.balabit.com/2012/10/syslog-ng-amqp-and-disk-buffers/ Vote for syslog-ng Store Box to become the Best Computer Forensics Tool ------------------------------------------------------------------ We’re proud to announce we entered our syslog-ng Store Box appliance into the SC Awards US for the Best Computer Forensic Tool. Voting is now open until Oct 26. (requires registration or subscription to SC Magazine) so we kindly ask you visit https://www.bigpulse.com/m20086/intro to vote for us. We appreciate your help. syslog-ng 3.3.7RC2 is released ------------------------------ Version 3.3.7 is scheduled to arrive at the end of October, and a second release candidate was released for it (called version 3.3.6.91). It has many fixes for FreeBSD, so it should compile with the bundled ivykis on FreeBSD 8 and 9. Patches to compile it on FreeBSD 7 are included in the updated sysutils/syslog-ng-rc port: http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/syslog-ng-rc/ Packages for all supported or development versions of openSUSE are also available: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Aczanik%3Asyslog-ng33 Announcement for 3.3.6.91: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-October/019480.html OTHER SHORT NEWS * syslog-ng will be presented at two conferences in October: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012 and http://conference.opensuse.org/ NEW RELEASES: * syslog-ng OSE 3.3.6.91: https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012- <https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-October/019480.html>October/019480.html <https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-October/019480.html> ARCHIVE http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/