[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.5.5 has been released

[devel at balabit.hu]

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PACKAGE             : syslog-ng
VERSION             : 3.5.5
SUMMARY             : new stable release
DATE                : Jul 21, 2014
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DESCRIPTION:

  A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.5.5) has been
  released. For latest fixes in the 3.5.x feature branch you are recommended to
  upgrade to this version.

CHANGES:

3.5.5
        Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:00:00 +0200

        This is the fifth bug-fix release for the 3.5.x series.
        Starting with this release, the 3.5 branch replaces 3.4 as the
        current "stable" version. Upgrading from earlier versions -
        and especially earlier branches - is highly recommended.

        New features
        ============

        * The facility() filter now supports ranges, allowing one to
          capture a range of facilities: facility(local0..local6).

        * The $(format-json) template function now supports SEQNUM.

        * The upstart script in contrib has been improved to allow the
          user to override certain settings (such as the configuration
          file, and the pidfile), and allow extra options to be
          specified.

        Bugfixes
        ========

        * Major memory leaks have been fixed in various parts of
          syslog-ng, including but not limited to network and file
          destinations and sources, value-pairs (thus affecting
          mongodb, $(format-json), and others), template handling and
          rewrite rules.

          Some of these leaks only happened during reload, some
          leaked on every message. They have now been plugged.

        * The value-pairs framework has seen a lot of updates, too:

          - It now honors time zone settings, so everything that uses
            value-pairs, will correctly take time zone settings into
            account.

          - Using globs in the key() option of value pairs will now
            also search macros for matches (thus key("D*") will match
            DATE too).

          - The syslog-proto (RFC5424) scope now correctly includes
            SDATA.

          - A bug that resulted in hierarchical elements being
            misparsed and made to appear in random places have been
            fixed.

        * The body() and subject() options of the SMTP destinations
          are now mandatory, and a double-free was also fixed in the
          driver.

        * Minor fixes were made to the $(env) template function, so
          that when looking up an empty environment variable, we will
          no longer trigger a glib warning. A misleading error message
          was also corrected.

        * The pdbtool patternize tool will now output version 4 PDB
          XML.

        * The configure script will not try to configure the AMQP
          module if no suitable version of python is installed. This
          avoids a difficult to diagnose error message during
          compilation.

        Developer news
        ==============

        * When compiled with internal ivykis, we will now install its
          headers too, along with our own. This is to make it easier
          for the Incubator to be compiled against a syslog-ng with
          embedded ivykis.

        * Plugin symbols are now loaded differently, in a way that
          lets plugins load further plugins, and use already loaded
          symbols. This is required for the various scripting
          destinations in the Incubator.

        * Starting with this release, we are installing the testing
          helpers as a convenience library (available under the
          syslog-ng-test pkg-config module). This allows third party
          projects to use our helpers.

        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:

        Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
        Daniel Gados
        Fabien Wernli
        Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu>
        Laszlo Budai <lbudai at balabit.hu>
        Laszlo Meszaros <lmesz at balabit.hu>
        Nick Alcock <nix at esperi.org.uk>
        Peter Czanik <czanik at balabit.hu>
        Peter Gyongyosi <gyp at balabit.hu>
        Sebastien Badia <seb at sebian.fr>
        Tibor Benke <tibor.benke at balabit.com>
        Viktor Juhasz <viktor.juhasz at balabit.com>
        Viktor Tusa <tusa at balabit.hu>
        Xufeng Zhang <xufeng.zhang at windriver.com>
        Zoltan Pallagi <pzolee at balabit.hu>

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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