Release Notes
October 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 3.24 of syslog-ng Open Source Edition includes the following main features.
The format-flat-json template function is identical to the format-json template function, but nested JSON objects are flattened in the output. For details, see "Template functions of syslog-ng OSE" in the Administration Guide.
You can set, fix, or guess the timezone of messages using timezone-specific rewrite rules. For details, see "Rewrite the timezone of a message" in the Administration Guide.
You can now use shell-style globbing (wildcards) in the selector of add-contextual-data() databases. For details, see "Shell-style globbing in the selector" in the Administration Guide.
You can now send Server Name Identification (SNI) information when using transport(tls) by enabling the sni(yes) option. For details, see "TLS options" in the Administration Guide.
You can use ISO 8601 compliant week numbering using the ${ISOWEEK} macro and its variants: S_ISOWEEK, R_ISOWEEK and C_ISOWEEK. For details, see "Macros of syslog-ng OSE" in the Administration Guide.
The ${LOGHOST} macro now honours the use-fqdn() option.
You can now reference the location of your configuration file in the configuration file using the `syslog-ng-sysconfdir` variable.
You can now assign disk-queue files to entries in the persist file. For details, see dqtool --help.
For a detailed list of issues resolved in this release, see syslog-ng Releases page.
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