[syslog-ng-announce] syslog-ng Premium Edition 3.0.6 has been released

[devel at balabit.hu]

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PACKAGE             : syslog-ng Premium Edition
VERSION             : 3.0.6
SUMMARY             : new stable release
DATE                : Jul 21, 2010
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DESCRIPTION:

  A new stable version of syslog-ng Premium Edition (3.0.6) has been
  released. For latest fixes in the 3.0.x branch you are recommended to
  upgrade to this version.

CHANGES:

3.0.6
        Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:14:17 +0100

        General
        * The lgstool utility reported "record too large" errors on some
          logstore files.  This has been a problem in the lgstool utility,
          not in the logstore files themselves. This has been corrected.
        * The syslog-ng PE application now ensures that the last chunks of
          logstore files are properly timestamped even if syslog-ng is
          terminated.
        * Non-file (for example pipe or tcp) destinations with
          flush_timeout() set to non-zero may cause high CPU usage as long
          as the destination is stalled.  The situation resolved itself when
          the destination became writable again.  This has been corrected.
        * Fixed a possible but rare memory leak in the handling of message
          suppression.
        * The default configuration file was incorrectly using the
          program_override() option, causing an extra ':' to be added to
          kernel log messages. This has been corrected.
        * Corrections in the handling of octal and hexadecimal numbers literals.
        * The syslog-ng application automatically stays in the foreground
          when performing configuration syntax checks (--syntax-only) or when
          started in debug mode (-d).
        * The syslog-ng PE application now ensures that numbers are never
          resolved using getpwnam/getgrnam functions, because this may cause
          deadlocks if the NSS provider is LDAP and the LDAP server is trying
          to log a message to syslog about invalid usernames.
        * When several SIGHUP signals are received in quick succession, the
          last one may have been dropped. This problem is fixed.
        * When syslog-ng is reloaded, the local hostname value was not
          refreshed, causing syslog-ng to remember the hostname until the
          next restart. This may not play nice with DHCP configured
          hostnames, which may change dynamically.
        * Fixed a boundary checking error on the usertty() destination,
          which can cause a local buffer to be overflown if the wtmp file on
          the system contains more than 123 characters in its ut_line
          member. It is not believed to be exploitable on the following
          platforms:
            Linux (32 chars)
            Solaris (12 chars)
            AIX (64 chars)
            HP-UX (12 chars)
            FreeBSD (8 chars)
            OpenBSD (8 chars)
        * Using the greedy and drop-invalid flags of the csv-parser()
          together caused syslog-ng to reject messages.  This has been
          corrected.
        * So far, opening a file with the pipe() source driver (or a pipe
          with the file() driver) has been considered as an error. From now on,
          syslog-ng gives only a warning about such situations.
        * The dir_perm, dir_user and dir_group options were not available
          for logstore destinations. This has been corrected.
        * It was not possible to leave the ownership, permission, and group
          settings of existing log files and directories unchanged, because the
          owner(-1) setting always inherited the global settings. Now using
          these attributes without specifying an argument (for example,
          'owner()') leaves the properties of the file unchanged.
        * When using templates to format messages, it is now possible to use
          the dollar-sign ($) in a template literally. Including two dollar
          signs in the template will result in a single dollar sign in the
          messages.
        * The syslog-ng.8 and syslog-ng.conf.5 man pages have been updated,
          and a new man page has been added for the loggen tool.

        Solaris
        * The Solaris 10 SMF script now checks if the pid file refers to an
          actual instance of syslog-ng to make sure that syslog-ng is started
          even after a system crash.
        * Corrections to the Solaris init scripts.

        AIX
        * The syslog-ng application did not automatically start on IBM AIX
          systems after the system was rebooted. This has been corrected.

        Debian, RPM installer
        * RPM and DEB packages now can rotate the /var/log/messages file,
          using a newly added logrotate script: /etc/logrotate.d/opt-syslog-ng

DOWNLOAD:

  Download the latest binaries from:

  http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server/upgrades/

  Note that to download the binaries, you have to login into your MyBalaBit
  account.

  The documentation of the syslog-ng application is available in
  The syslog-ng 3.0 Administrator Guide at:
  http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng&type=all&language[en]=en&



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