[syslog-ng-announce] syslog-ng 1.9.9 released

[Balazs Scheidler]

Hi,

I have released syslog-ng 1.9.9, a version marking the feature freeze
towards syslog-ng 2.0.0. This is still a "development" release however
this is more suited for production use than previous versions.

The list of user-visible changes summarizing the changes since 1.9.8 can
be found below. Please note that previous snapshots (dated after
2006-02-24) contained a severe problem that might have caused crashes
which I have fixed in this release, but is not in the NEWS entry as
1.9.8 did not have this problem.

The release is available at the usual place:

http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/

The latest documentation is not yet available on the webpage, you'll
have to wait for that till tomorrow when the next snapshot will be
generated.

1.9.9
        Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:49:47 +0100

        Some minor new features:

        * Added optional() option to pipe and unix drivers to make syslog-ng
          start even if the required directories/files do not exist.
        * Added DNS name resolution to udp and tcp targets.
        * Added a stats() keyword for 1.6.x compatibility.
        * Added processed counters for source/destination groups and the log
          center.
        * Added normalize_hostnames() option which converts all hostnames to
          lower case.
        * Added PID macro.
        * Added kernel flag to sources to indicate that messages coming from
          the source should default to 'kern.notice' instead of 'user.notice'
        * Added frac_digits() option which controls how many digits are
          printed in second fractions.
        * Added time_sleep() option to add a fixed latency to the poll loop
          required in some tuning situations.
        * Documentation updates.

        Changes:

        * Removed stats entries for files as they never lose messages and it
          would only clutter the log statistics output.
        * The meaning of the undocumented keep_timestamp() option was
          changed and documented, it controls whether syslog-ng uses the
          time of reception or the time included in the log message.

        Bugfixes:

        * Fixed port unreachable handling for UDP destinations.
        * Fixed PRI macro processing as it included the local hostname in
          addition to the priority value because of a missing break
          statement.
        * UNIX domain sockets are kept alive across SIGHUPs by default.
        * Fixed a possible segmentation fault on SIGHUP.
        * Fixed timezone extraction from incoming messages with ISO
          timestamp (only this syslog-ng can send these currently)
        * Fixed HOST_FROM, FULLHOST_FROM, SOURCEIP, DATE, R_DATE, S_DATE
          macros (some were still not implemented others worked incorrectly
          in some circumstances)
        * Fixed fractions of a second processing.


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Bazsi