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[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.4.0alpha1 has been released
From: <devel_at_nospam>Date: Sun Mar 11 2012 - 09:30:53 GMT
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PACKAGE : syslog-ng
VERSION : 3.4.0alpha1
SUMMARY : new stable release
DATE : Mar 11, 2012
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DESCRIPTION:
A new stable version of syslog-ng Open Source Edition (3.4.0alpha1) has been
released. This is an alpha release aiming at collecting feedback and testing
on the upcoming 3.4 version. Use in production environments is not
recommended.
CHANGES:
3.4.0alpha1
Features:
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* Support for junctions & channels were added, which improve the
flexibility of the syslog-ng configuration language. This allows
combining sources with their closely tied processing functionality
(like parser, rewrite and filter statements). Read this blog post
for more information:
http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2012/01/syslog-ng-flexibility-improvements/
In the final form of the functionality the "log" keyword as
described in the blog post above was replaced with "channel".
* The functionality to query and manipulate sets of name-value pairs
(often referenced as value-pairs and used in the mongodb()
destination driver and the $(format-json) template function).
got significantly improved. It is now possible to change the name
of the keys when creating the output. See this commit for more
information:
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/ddc7c2539bd66fa35e8df441e4baf58e87b6708d
* Plugins & modules are now demand-loaded automatically if the
"autoload-compiled-modules" global variable is set to 1, which is
the default. Any shared libraries found on the module search path
is considered for loading if the configuration file contains a
reference to a functionality it provides.
To disable this functionality simply set the referenced variable
to 0 with a "@define" statement and load modules explicitly via
"@module" statements.
To list the available plugins & modules, use the --module-registry
command line option for syslog-ng, which results in a detailed
listing.
* Added a new parser named json-parser() to parse incoming JSON
formatted messages. See this commit for more information:
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/e5569687bba2551c89a78faee55bcf8b4944066f
* Added a number of template functions:
$(length ARG) - length of a template expression
$(substr ARG START [LEN]) - substring of a string
$(strip ARG) - remove white space from the start and end
$(sanitize ARG1 ARG2) - join args to form a filename while
removing special characters like '/'
$(+), $(-), $(*), $(/), $(%) - perform numeric operations
* Added support for replicasets to the mongodb() destination driver.
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/a980b9d268efa54879d3deeb4a53fa5a281629ba
* Added support for safe-mode() to the mongodb() destination driver
that ensures inserts were properly executed at the cost of some
performance penalties.
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/768f0c6ec8eba2ad51531f2331fb5635fe12c063
* Added support for SMTP destination to send out emails triggered by
log messages.
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/404ceb959efe9715ce7437d7dcdc28ababbac590
* Added support for generating UUIDs via the $(uuid) template
function.
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/a16798c653c057239236945034114d8abf320e44
* Added the @SET@ parser to db-parser().
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/ab08c84abbeda5a200b8150a6af7b02c64d84994
* Added support for dbd-option() in the sql() destination driver
that makes it possible to supply driver specific options to the
DBI driver.
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/9254fe9e6236746bf1f955f0cac1274634b1beda
* Reload of the configuration can now be triggered using
"syslog-ng-ctl reload".
* A new macro named $LOGHOST was added, which expands to the local
hostname running syslog-ng.
* A set of time macros were added prefixed with "C_" that use the
current time instead of the reception time (prefixed R_) and and
the time that was included in the message (prefixed S_). This
means that C_DATE expands to the current date, whereas R_DATE
would expand to the date the current message was received at.
https://github.com/bazsi/syslog-ng-3.4/commit/c2d17009e2ce14960acb519750fe2537b05e6f46
* Improved error reporting by including the configuration-file
location of the object associated with the error. This makes it
easier to diagnose errors even in the case of otherwise unnamed
objects.
* This release also includes all fixes of the 3.3 branch, which are
not listed here for brevity's sake. The merged commit ID is:
bf742b0, which is a couple of patches ahead of "3.3.4".
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:
Andreas Piesk
Balazs Scheidler (BalaBit)
Balint Kovacs (BalaBit)
Evan Rempel (University of Victoria)
Gergely Nagy (BalaBit)
Heiko Gerstung
Hendrik Völker (Verizon)
Jakub Jankowski (superhost.pl)
Martin Grauel (BalaBit)
Matthias Runge (Fedora)
Patrick Hemmer
Russ Milne (Seccuris)
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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