syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.20 - Release Notes

Release Notes

syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.20

Release Notes

March 2019

These release notes provide information about the syslog-ng Open Source Edition release.


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Supported platforms

The syslog-ng Open Source Edition application is highly portable and is known to run on a wide range of hardware architectures (x86, x86_64, SUN Sparc, PowerPC 32 and 64, Alpha) and operating systems, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Cygwin, Tru64, and others.


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New Features

What is new in syslog-ng Open Source Edition 3.20?

Version 3.20 of syslog-ng Open Source Edition includes the following main features.

collectd destination

You can now directly send messages to the collectd daemon. Many thanks for Fabien Wernli for contributing this destination to syslog-ng OSE.For details, see "collectd: Using collectd" in the Administration Guide.

New parsers

The Websense Parser can parse the log messages of Websense Content Gateway (Raytheon|Websense, now Forcepoint). These messages do not completely comply with the syslog RFCs, making them difficult to parse. The websense-parser() of syslog-ng OSE solves this problem, and can separate these log messages to name-value pairs. For details, see Administration Guide.

The Netskope Parser can parse Netskope log messages. These messages do not completely comply with the syslog RFCs, making them difficult to parse. The netskope-parser() of syslog-ng OSE solves this problem, and can separate these log messages to name-value pairs. For details, see Administration Guide.

Enhancements
  • The persist-tool utility is now part of the syslog-ng OSE package. For details, see the persist-tool manual page.

Deprecated features

Since ElasticSearch version 1.x has reached its end of life, its support has been removed from syslog-ng OSE. Use the elasticsearch2 destination instead.


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Resolved Issues

For a detailed list of issues resolved in this release, see syslog-ng Releases page.


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