[syslog-ng] insider 2013-09: syslog-ng 3.5 beta release; incubator project; GSoC updates;

[Peter Czanik]

Dear syslog-ng users,


This is the 27th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter 
that brings you syslog-ng related news.


FEATURED NEWS


syslog-ng 3.5 beta1 is released

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The first beta of syslog-ng 3.5 was released today. It has many internal 
rework and also many user visible new features. Here you can read just 
the headlines, for a complete list and details please visit the NEWS 
file ( https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-3.5/blob/master/NEWS ) or 
this blog post: 
http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/09/05/what-is-cooking-in-syslog-ng-3.5/

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    Stomp destination

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    Multiline support

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    Blacklist support

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    and many more

As usual, testing is greatly appreciated as it helps to iron out 
problems before the final release!

Sources are available from git ( 
https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng-3.5 ) or as tgz from 
http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/downloads/download

For third-party binary packages for various Linux and UNIX platforms, visithttp://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/downloads/3rd-party  .Debian/Ubuntu and openSUSE packages are expected to be available in the coming days.


syslog-ng incubator project

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The syslog-ng module incubator (Incubator henceforth) is a collection of 
tools and modules for syslog-ng that for one reason or the other, are 
not part of the official repository. This serves both as a staging 
ground for experimental modules, and as a repository of plugins that are 
not aimed at upstream inclusion. It's also an example of a third party 
syslog-ng module.

Sources are available at https://github.com/algernon/syslog-ng-incubator


syslog-ng GSoC: finished successfully!

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The coding time for Google Summer of Code isover and both of our 
students finished their projects successfully. The redis destination is 
tomerged to syslog-ng 3.5 before the beta2 releaseand the high 
performance mysql destination is expected to follow it soon.A summary 
blog post of their work is due to appear next week at 
http://petrovicsgyula.blogspot.com/ and http://tichygsoc.blogspot.hu/


syslog-ng 3.5 draft documentation

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A draft version of syslog-ng 3.5 documentation was also released today. 
It contains some of the new features.

It is available in many forms:

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    PDF:
    http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/syslog-ng-ose-3.5-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-v3.5-guide-admin/pdf/syslog-ng-ose-v3.5-guide-admin.pdf

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    HTML:
    http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.5-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-v3.5-guide-admin/html/index.html

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    Single page HTML:
    http://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-3.5-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-v3.5-guide-admin/html-single/index.html


SHORT NEWS:

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    syslogng-web, a simple and fast log viewer:
    https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/08/syslog-ng-web-a-simple-and-fast-log-viewer/

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    how to monitor a directory of log files:
    http://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2013/09/10/howto-monitor-a-directory-of-logfiles/


NEW RELEASES

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    syslog-ng 3.5beta1:
    https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2013-September/000166.html

Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at 
documentation at balabit.com <mailto:documentation at balabit.com> To read 
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-- 
Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik at balabit.hu>
BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/