[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.7.0beta2

[Czanik, Péter]

Hi,
Upgrade nodes for packagres from beta1 -> beta2 (this is a changelog for my
SUSE packages):
- add back man pages
- re-enable smp build
- follow geoip modul name change (tfgeoip -> geoip-plugin)
Bye,

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

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Budai, László <laszlo.budai at balabit.com>
wrote:

> 3.7.0beta2
>
> This is the second beta release of the upcoming syslog-ng OSE 3.7
> branch.
>
> Changes compared to the previous alpha release:
> Features
>
>    -
>
>    Added a geoip parser.
>    -
>
>    ssl_options inside tls() extended with the following set:
>    no-sslv2, no-sslv3, no-tlsv1, no-tlsv11, no-tlsv12
>    -
>
>    minimal libriemann-client version bumped from 1.0.0 to 1.6.0
>    -
>
>    TLS support added to Riemann destination
>    -
>
>    timeout() option added to Riemann destination
>
> Fixes
>
>    -
>
>    SyslogNg.jar removed from the release tarball.
>    -
>
>    When the configured host was not available during the initialization of
>    afsocket destination syslog-ng just didn't start. From now, syslog-ng
>    starts in that case and will retry connecting to the host periodically.
>    -
>
>    When a not writeable file becomes writeable later, syslog-ng recognize
>    it
>    (with the help of reopen-timer) and delivers messages to the file
>    without
>    dropping those which were received during the file was not available.
>    -
>
>    Fixed a configure error around libsystemd-journal.
>    -
>
>    --disable-python option and other Python related fixes addded to
>    configure
>    -
>
>    Retries fixed in SQL destination. In some circumstances when
>    retry_sql_inserts was set to 1, after an insertion failure all incoming
>    messages were dropped.
>    -
>
>    Added DOS/Windows line ending support in config.
>    -
>
>    Parallel build is supported for Python and Java destination drivers.
>    -
>
>    Fixed compilation failure on OpenBSD
>    -
>
>    Memory leak around reload and internal queueing mechanism has been
>    fixed.
>    -
>
>    AMQP connection process fixed.
>    -
>
>    Fixed a potential abort when the localhost name cannot be detected.
>    -
>
>    Security issue fixed around $HOST.
>    Tech details:
>    When the name of the host is too long, the buffer we use to format the
>    chained hostname is truncated. However snprintf() returns the length
>    the
>    result would be if no truncation happened, thus we will read
>    uninitialized
>    bytes off the stack when we use that pointer to set $HOST
>    with log_msg_set_value().
>
>    There can be some security implications, like reading values from the
>    stack
>    that can help to craft further exploits, especially in the presense of
>    address space randomization. It can also cause a DoS if the hostname
>    length
>    is soo large that we would read over the top-of-the-stack, which is
>    probably
>    not mmapped causing a SIGSEGV.
>    -
>
>    Journal entries containing name-value pairs without '=' caused
>    syslog-ng
>    to crash. Instead of crashing, syslog-ng just drop these nv pairs.
>
> 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.
>
> We would like to thank the following people for their contribution:
>
> Alex Badics, Andras Mitzki, Balazs Scheidler, Bence Tamas Gedai,
> Fabien Wernli, Gergely Nagy, Gergo Nagy, Gyorgy Pasztor, Istvan Adam Mozes,
> Laszlo Budai, Peter Czanik, Robert Fekete, Tibor Benke, Viktor Juhasz,
> Zoltan Pallagi.
>
> —
> View it on GitHub
> <https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/releases/tag/syslog-ng-3.7.0beta2>.
>
>
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