[syslog-ng-announce] syslog-ng 3.3.4 has been released

[devel at balabit.hu]

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PACKAGE             : syslog-ng
VERSION             : 3.3.4
SUMMARY             : new stable release
DATE                : Jan 19, 2012
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DESCRIPTION:

  A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.3.4) has been
  released. For latest fixes in the 3.3.x feature branch you are recommended to
  upgrade to this version.

CHANGES:

3.3.4
        Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:07:46 +0100

        Highlights
        ==========
        This release is aimed fixing bugs in the 3.3.x series, with one more
        important change: there's an incompatible change in the processing
        of <action> tags in the db-parser() database format (aka patterndb),
        see below for more details.

        Bugfixes:
        =========

        * Fixed set() and subst() rewrite operations to work properly on the
          value() parameter specified in the configuration even if they are
          referenced at multiple spots in the configuration file.  Earlier
          the 2nd and subsequent invocation of the rewrite rule changed
          $MESSAGE.

        * Fixed csv-parser() to work even if it is invoked at multiple spots
          in the configuration file. Earlier, the 2nd and subsequent
          references of the parser rule forgot the list of column names and
          the input template.

        * Fixed the processing of condition() parameter in rewrite rules,
          which was broken if it contained a filter() function call.

        * Fixed program() destination to properly kill the child process on
          reload and shutdown.

        * Fixed a potential division by zero error which could happen for
          large data rates due to a race in an unlocked region.

        * Fixed an assertion failure in mongodb destination that happened
          due to a race condition at high data rates.

        * Fixed an fd leak in the control socket code, that caused the
          control connection file descriptors to be leaked.

        Other changes
        =============
        * db-parser() automatically sets a tag named '.classifier.unknown'
          if the message doesn't match.

        * The use of actions in db-parser() for messages without a
          correllation context was inconsistently indexing messages. For
          actions in rules that had correllation @0 was the new message
          being generated, and @1 was the message that triggered the rule.
          Without correllation @0 was used for the triggering message, which
          is greatly inconsistent and unintuitive.  This was fixed by
          changing the behaviour for rules without correllation, now both
          correllation and non-correllation rules use @0 for the new
          message, and @1 for the triggering message.  This is an
          incompatible change in the db-parser() format.

        * The value of the $TAGS macro is added to pdbtool match output.

        * unix-dgram() and unix-stream() error logging on systemd failures
          became more detailed for easier troubleshooting.

        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:

          Attila M. Magyar (BalaBit)
          Balazs Scheidler (BalaBit)
          Costa Farber
          Dmitry Gilev
          Evan Rempel (University of Victoria)
          Fried Zoltan (BalaBit)
          Gergely Nagy (BalaBit)
          Jakub Jankowski (SuperHost.pl)
          John Morrissey (Horde.net)
          Michael Hocke (New York University)
          Michal Schmidt (RedHat)
          Peter Eisenlohr (Inform Software)
          Svante Signell (Telia.se)
          Thomas Wollner

DOWNLOAD:

  You can download the source or binary packages from:

    http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/downloads

  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/




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