3.6.0beta1

This is the first beta release of the upcoming syslog-ng OSE 3.6 branch. Compared to the alphas, this release contains a moderate amount of new functionality and bugfixes. Further releases will focus on stability and bugfixes.

Features

• One can now use multiple elements in the key() and exclude() options of any value-pairs declaration.
• A new source driver was added to the syslog-ng: systemd-journal(), which reads from the Journal directly, not via the syslog forwarding socket. The system() source defaults to using this source when systemd is detected.

Bugfixes

• All the various crypto-related template functions now check that the desired length of the digest is not larger than the digest itself. If a larger value is requested, they will truncate it to the digest length.
• The $(geoip) template function now works with threaded(yes) too.
• The unix domain socket credentials code was changed to only build on Linux and FreeBSD. With this change, syslog-ng should compile again on platforms where the OS does not support this, with the feature disabled.

Credits

syslog-ng is developed as a community project, and as such it relies on volunteers, to do the work necessary 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:

Andras Mitzki, Fabien Wernli, Gergely Nagy, Laszlo Budai, Michael Hocke, Tibor Benke, Viktor Juhasz, Viktor Tusa.