syslog-ng 3.4.8

This is the seventh bug-fix release for the 3.4.x series, with a set of important fixes over 3.4.7 released last December. Upgrading to this release is highly recommended.

Features

• Support for tzif3 format timezone files (used by recent releases of the tzdata package) was implemented.
• SDATA enterprise IDs are now handled correctly when using value-pairs, they will not be needlessly split up into smaller chunks.

Bugfixes

• Drivers using value-pairs() (mongodb, format-json, etc) were made more robust, and will not behave strangely anymore when using higher compiler optimisation levels.
• The DATE macro in most value-pairs() scopes will now always contain the stamp time, as opposed to sometimes the received or the stamp time.
• The syslog-proto (rfc5424) scope of value-pairs() now includes SDATA too.
• The $SEQNUM macro is now correctly handled by the $(format-json) template function.
• Drivers using value-pairs() will now work correctly when a macro is specified in a key() statement.
• When using the same json-parser() in multiple log paths, syslog-ng no longer crashes when no marker was set.
• When a GeoIP lookup fails, handle it gracefully, avoiding an annoying glib warning.
• When running in a FreeBSD jail, the system() source will not use /dev/klog.
• Various memory leaks were plugged (related to internal locking, and value-pairs).
• When building from Git, the grammar files are now build-able with bison 3+. Builds from tarballs are unaffected.

Miscellaneous changes

• The host() and port() options of the MongoDB destination driver have been labelled as deprecated. They already were, just not marked so.
• The username() and password() options of the AMQP driver were made mandatory.

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:

Andras Mitzki
Balazs Scheidler
Daniel Gados
Fabien Wernli
Gergely Nagy
Igor Ippolitov
Laszlo Meszaros
Nick Alcock
Peter Czanik
Tibor Benke
Viktor Tusa
Xufeng Zhang