Release Notes
March 2019
These release notes provide information about the syslog-ng Open Source Edition release.
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.
The source code of syslog-ng Open Source Edition is released under the GPLv2 license and is available on GitHub.
See the Downloads page for binary packages.
Version 3.20 of syslog-ng Open Source Edition includes the following main features.
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.
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.
The persist-tool utility is now part of the syslog-ng OSE package. For details, see the persist-tool manual page.
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.
For a detailed list of issues resolved in this release, see syslog-ng Releases page.
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