Release Notes
syslog-ng Premium Edition 7.0.17
Release Notes
October 2019
These release notes provide information about the syslog-ng Premium Edition release.
About this release
Welcome to syslog-ng Premium Edition (syslog-ng PE) version 7 and thank you for choosing our product. This document describes the new features and most important changes since the latest release of syslog-ng PE. The main aim of this paper is to aid system administrators in planning the migration to the new version of syslog-ng PE. The following sections describe the news and highlights of syslog-ng PE 7.
Starting with version 7, syslog-ng Premium Edition is released as a rolling release. For details, see the Version policy.
Supported platforms
The syslog-ng Premium Edition application is officially supported on the following platforms. Note that the following table is for general reference only, and is not always accurate about the supported platforms and options available for specific platforms. The latest version of this table is available at https://syslog-ng.com/log-management-software/supported-platforms. Unless explicitly noted otherwise, the subsequent releases of the platform (for example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and its update releases like 7.2) are also supported.
| x86 | x86_64 | SPARC | SPARC64 | PowerPC | IA64 | |
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| CentOS 6 | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| CentOS 7 | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| Debian 8 (jessie) | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| Oracle Linux 6 | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| Oracle Linux 7 | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| Red Hat EL 6 | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| Red Hat EL 7 | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| SLES 12 | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) | - | ✔ | - | - | - | - |
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Caution:
Certain sources and destinations are not supported on every platform (particularly, the sql() destination, and the hdfs() destination). For details, see the description of the specific source and destination. |
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Caution:
If you are planning to use Python in syslog-ng PE (for example, Python parser or Python template function) on RHEL 6 platform, then you have to manually install Python 2.7. If the Python version on the machine is not 2.7, you will receive a similar error message during startup: [2017-07-27T13:42:03.606679] Reading shared object for a candidate module: path='/opt/syslog-ng/lib/syslog-ng', fname='mod-python.so', module='mod-python' [2017-07-27T13:42:03.606994] Error opening plugin module: module='mod-python', error='libpython2.7.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory' |
For details about the syslog-ng Agent for Windows application, see the syslog-ng Agent for Windows documentation. For an agent-less solution, see the list of supported platforms.
For using syslog-ng PE on other platforms (for example, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, Microsoft Windows), see the list of supported platforms in the syslog-ng PE version 6 Administration Guide.
New features in syslog-ng PE 7.0.17
Fetching logs from Office 365
Starting with syslog-ng PE version
Upgrade improvements
The upgrade from syslog-ng PE version 6 has been improved and made more robust. If you are upgrading from syslog-ng PE version 6, first upgrade to the latest available 6.0.x maintenance release. For details on the upgrade process to syslog-ng PE version 7, see "Upgrading from syslog-ng PE 6.0.x to version 7" in the Administration Guide.