syslog-ng-incubator-0.6.2

This is a bugfix release to make syslog-ng-incubator compatible with the latest (3.12.2) version os syslog-ng.
It also drops the compatibility with all lower version of syslog-ng

Bugfix: Adapt to the new syslog-ng version

syslog-ng-incubator-0.6.1

Bugfix: Adopt the modules to the changes in syslog-ng version 3.11

This is a bugfix release to make the Incubator compatible with syslog-ng version 3.11

syslog-ng-incubator-0.6.0

Remove: date parser

Date parser was removed as it was incorporated into syslog-ng master

Remove: getent template function

Getent module was merged into syslog-ng, so it was removed from here

Feature: syslog-ng 3.8 support

This release adds support for syslog-ng 3.8 and also incorporated a lot of
bugfixes needed to compile the code.

Bugfix: Renamed kafka destination to kafka_c

To fix conflict with syslog-ng

Bugfix: Fix queue.buffering.max.ms value in example

Setting a too low value incurs a moderate CPU usage even when no logs
need to be forwarded. Increase the value to 1s instead.

We would like to thank the following people for their contribution:

Vincent Bernat, Balazs Scheidler, Yilin Li, Laszlo Varady

syslog-ng-incubator-0.5.0

syslog-ng-incubator-0.5.0

Feature: syslog-ng 3.7 support

This release adds support for syslog-ng 3.7, but older versions are not supported anymore.

Feature: date parser

A parser for arbitrary date formats which may be contained in non-syslog messages

Feature: Kafka improvements

• check for partition availability before selecting one
• synchronously insert events into kafka (configurable)

Bugfix: Various kafka/grok configure fixes

In some cases enable/disable kafka and grok support were confused

Bugfix: getent group size

Fixes extraction on large groups

We would like to thank the following people for their contribution:

Andras Mitzki, Fabien Wernli, Gergely Nagy, Laszlo Meszaros, Levente Kurusa, Peter Czanik, Viktor Juhasz, Vincent Bernat

syslog-ng-incubator-0.4.1

syslog-ng-incubator-0.4.1

Bugfixes

Bugfix: Make it possible to disable java destination

And the detection of java environment is refined

Bugfix: Purge the last traces of graphite

Because graphite was feature merged into syslog-ng 3.6

Credits

We would like to thank the following people for their contribution:

Peter Czanik, Gergely Nagy, Viktor Juhasz, Laszlo Budai

syslog-ng-incubator-0.4.0

syslog-ng-incubator 0.4.0

This release contains a wide variety of new features as well as several
bugfixes, too. This is the first version with support for syslog-ng 3.6.
Support for older versions of syslog-ng is dropped.

Features

Feature: syslog-ng 3.6 support.

This release adds support for syslog-ng 3.6, but older versions are not supported anymore.

Feature: Kafka destination.

This destination enables sending logs to Apache Kafka messaging system.

Feature: grok parser.

Grok is an advanced pattern format (like PatternDB) used primarily by LogStash,
which allows users to parse unstructured data into a structured format. This module
allows syslog-ng users to use Grok patterns, too.

Feature: ZMQ source/destination.

ZeroMQ is a simple, high-speed messaging protocol. These drivers allows
syslog-ng to send/receive logs from ZeroMQ message brokers.

Feature: Java destination.

Java destination drivers enables the users to write destinations
in Java or in any JVM compatible language.

BugFixes

Bugfix: Fixed counting inserted/sent messages as stored ones.

Bugfix: Fixed two python destination segfaults.

Python exceptions and messages not conforming to UTF-8 do not crash the destination anymore.

Credits

We would like to thank the following people for their contribution:

Balazs Scheidler, Brandon Smith, Fabian Wernli, Gergely Nagy, Laszlo Meszaros,
Pierre-Yves Ritschard, Robert Fekete, Sandor Irhazi, Viktor Juhasz,
Viktor Tusa

syslog-ng-incubator 0.3.3

Bugfixes

Compatibility with syslog-ng 3.5.5

The newest syslog-ng release, syslog-ng 3.5.5 introduced a breaking API change. The Incubator has been updated, and now works with - and requires - at least syslog-ng 3.5.5.

Fix for the ElasticSearch SCL plugin

The ElasticSearch SCL plugin has been fixed, and will now work out of the box.