[syslog-ng] syslog-ng Insider - October 2012

[Peter Czanik]

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 at balabit.com <mailto:documentation at balabit.com>


FEATURED NEWS


New AMQP destination driver

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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
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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

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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


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    syslog-ng will be presented at two conferences in October:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012 and
    http://conference.opensuse.org/

NEW RELEASES:

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    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>

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Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/