[syslog-ng] syslog-ng Insider - September 2012

[Peter Czanik]

Dear syslog-ng users,


This is the 16th 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


syslog-ng 3.3.6 is released

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There was a new release for the syslog-ng stable line: version 3.3.6 
There are mostly bugfixes in this release but also some smaller but long 
waited features:

  *

    the @include statement now accepts globs

  *

    upstream ivykis is used

  *

    better systemd support

The change to upstream ivykis introduced a bug on FreeBSD and some other 
problems were also discovered. Version 3.3.7 is scheduled to arrive at 
the end of October, and there is now a 3.3.6.90, aka 3.3.7RC available 
for testing.

Announcement for 3.3.6: 
https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2012-August/000146.html

Announcement for 3.3.6.90: 
https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-September/019365.html


syslog-ng 3.4 news

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Although there aren't any new alpha releases yet, there are already 
plenty of news for the development branch aswell!


  *

    The MongoDB destination received a major speed boost, and work is
    underway to make it even more performant.

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    The $(format-json) function now supports nested structures

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    There's a MAC address parser available for patterndb

  *

    A couple of new template functions were introduced, $(md5), $(sha1)
    and others.

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    The unit tests were improved upon greatly, and many many bugs were
    squashed aswell.


For the complete list of changes, you can browse the commit messages at 
https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-3.4/commits/master

And while there, check out the sources and give it a try, feedback is 
appreciated, help us make syslog-ng even better!


SSB 3 LTS: wildcard search in logspaces

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The third important new feature in SSB 3 LTS is the ability to search 
within log messages using wildcard characters. It is indeed a small and 
simple change on the surface, but brings a lot of new possibilities.

Read about the details at 
http://gyp.blogs.balabit.com/2012/07/new-features-in-ssb-3-lts-wildcard-search-in-logspaces/ 



OTHER SHORT NEWS


  *

    syslog-ng ports in FreeBSD explained:
    https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2012/09/syslog-ng-rc/

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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:

  *

    syslog-ng OSE 3.3.6:
    https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2012-August/000146.html

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    syslog-ng OSE 3.3.6.90:
    https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2012-September/019365.html

CASE STUDY:

  *

    University of Victoria:
    http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng_cs_uvic_en.pdf


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