Release Notes

syslog-ng Premium Edition 7.0.24

Release Notes

02 March 2021, 11:17

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 7.0.24 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 7.0.24.

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. 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.

For the x86_64 architecture, the following platforms are supported in version 7.0.23 of syslog-ng PE:

• CentOS 7

• CentOS 8

• Debian 8 (Jessie)

• Debian 10 (Buster)

• Oracle Linux 7

• Red Hat EL 7

• Red Hat EL 8

• SLES 12

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

For details about the syslog-ng Agent for Windows application, see the syslog-ng Agent for Windows documentation.

For using syslog-ng PE on other platforms (for example, AIX), see the list of supported platforms in the syslog-ng PE version 6 Administration Guide.

Removed features

The following is a list of features that have been removed from syslog-ng Premium Edition (syslog-ng PE) version 7.0.24.

• Unsupported platforms

  Starting from syslog-ng PE version 7.0.24, the following platforms are no longer supported:

  • CentOS 6

  • Oracle Linux 6

  • Red Hat EL 6

  For more information about the supported platforms for syslog-ng PE version 7.0.24, see Supported platforms.