syslog-ng 3.4.8
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 akey()
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()
andport()
options of the MongoDB destination driver have been labelled as deprecated. They already were, just not marked so. - The
username()
andpassword()
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