[syslog-ng] syslog-ng Insider - January 2013

[Peter Czanik]

Dear syslog-ng users,


This is the 20th 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


Video: a short introduction to syslog-ng

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There is a video series in the work to introduce the basics of 
syslog-ng. The first video is online now, you can watch it at 
http://youtu.be/1Ff6tY1SvW8

New videos will be published on the same Youtube channel. You are very 
welcome to subscribe to receive notifications about further syslog-ng 
videos and other interesting content.


syslog-ng OSE configurator

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syslog-ng OSE configurator is a web application, which can generate a 
syslog-ng OSE configuration with only a few mouse clicks. Right now it 
can only deal with global options, sources, destinations and of course 
with logpath. There are plans to add filters and templates in the future.

For more information and links to sources and the configurator, check 
the authors blog at 
http://micek.blogs.balabit.com/en/2013/01/syslog-ng-ose-configurator/


syslog-ng 3.4 RC2 is released

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Version 3.4 RC2was released today. Compared to the RC1release, it has 
some minor bugfixes, mainly related to fixing compile problems of 
different features and platforms. This also involves an update to the 
bundled ivykis library from version 0.30 to 0.36.

For a summary about what's new in the 3.4 releases, check Bazsi's blog 
at http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2012/12/syslog-ng-3-4beta1-released/

For a list of changes, check the announcement at 
https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000153.html

For binary package availability check our 3^rd party binary page at 
http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/downloads/3rd_party

At the time of this writing there are RC1 packages for Debian, openSUSE, 
Ubuntu, FreeBSD ports are updated and there is a Fedora source rpm. 
These should be updated to RC2 in the coming days.

OpenSUSE Factory already features syslog-ng 3.4 RC1 and will be updated 
to RC2 after openSUSE 12.3beta1 is out.


SHORT NEWS:


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    Right now 3.4 is available only in source form for Fedora. Check how
    you can compile it at
    http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/01/for-the-impatient-syslog-ng-3-4rc1-on-fedora-18rc/

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    FreeBSD 9.1 is released, news about the new release and syslog-ng
    are available at
    http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/01/freebsd-9-1-and-syslog-ng/

  *

    Development of 3.5 is already started. A rough roadmap is available
    at http://huboard.com/algernon/syslog-ng/board (GitHub account required)


NEW RELEASES:

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    syslog-ng OSE 3.4 RC2:
    https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000153.html

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    syslog-ng OSE 3.3.8:
    http://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-January/000152.html

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