syslog-ng-3.12.1

3.12.1

Features

• HDFS: support macro in filename (#1638)
• HDFS: add append support (#1675)
• Java: allow to use sequence numbers in templates (#1628)
• TLS improvements (#1603, #1636)
  • Add PKCS 12 support with the new pkcs12-file() TLS option
  • startup time ssl-options() and peer-verify() check
  • startup time key_file, cert_file, ca_dir, crl_dir and cipher_suite check
  • ECDH cipher support (OpenSSL 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0) with the ecdh-curve-list() option (only available >= 1.0.2)
    • for < 1.0.2, a hard-coded curve is used
    • for >= 1.0.2, automatic curve selection is used (the ecdh-curve-list() option can restrict this list)
  • DH cipher support with the dhparam-file() option
    • if the option is not specified, fallback RFC 3526 parameters are used
  • minor fixes
• stdin() source driver (#1605)
• Implement read_old_records option for systemd-journal source (#1642)
• Add tags-parser: a new module to parse $TAGS values (#1658)
• Add a Windows eventlog parser scl module (#1572)
• Add XML parser module (#1659, #1684)

Bugfixes

• Fix cannot parse ipv6 into hostname (#1617)
• Speedup add-contextual-data by making ordering optional (#1645)
• Fix monitor-method() option not working for wildcard-file() source (#1651)
• Sanitize SDATA keys in syslog-protocol messages to avoid generating non-valid messages (#1650, #1654)
• Fix memory leaks reported using Valgrind (#1649)
• Fix memory leak related to cloning pipes and reload (#1647)
• Fix getent protocol number returns incorrect value (#1665)
• Fix elasticsearch2 destination flush mechanism (#1668)
• Fix file destination related memory leak (#1685)
• Fix a possible memory leak around affile destination (#1685)

Other changes

• Improve syslog-ng debun functionality (#1633, #1641, #1663)
• Java: allow to set JVM options form global syslog-ng options (#1639)
• Do steps towards Python 3 support:
  • Fix string compatibility for Python 3 (#1632)
  • Improve Python version auto detection (#1660)
• HTTP destination: display verbose logs on debug level (#1526)
• Improvements for Solaris packing (#1664)

Notes to the Developers

• Update internal RabbitMQ (#1662)
• Update internal ivykis to v0.42 (#1566)
• Fix Travis and test related issues (#1566, #1644, #1674)
• Update docker images (#1637)
• Fix some clang compile errors (#1662)

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.

We would like to thank the following people for their contribution:
Andras Mitzki, Antal Nemes, Attila Szalay, Balazs Scheidler, Gabor Nagy,
Gergely Orosz, Janos Szigetvari, Laszlo Budai, Laszlo Varady, Mate Farkas,
Marton Suranyi, Peter Kokai, Szilard Pfeiffer, Tamas Nagy, Zoltan Pallagi.