Release Notes
syslog-ng Premium Edition 7.0.27
syslog-ng Premium Edition 7.0.27
Release Notes
10 September 2021, 01:59
These release notes provide information about the syslog-ng Premium Edition release. For the most recent documents and product information, see syslog-ng Premium Edition - Technical Documentation.
About this release
Welcome to syslog-ng Premium Edition (syslog-ng PE) version 7.0.27 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 7.0.27.
Starting with version 7, syslog-ng Premium Edition is released as a rolling release. For details, see the Version policy.
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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 7.0.27 of syslog-ng PE:
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CentOS 7
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Debian 10 (Buster)
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Oracle Linux 7
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Red Hat EL 7
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Red Hat EL 8
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SLES 12
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
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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.
New features
New features in syslog-ng Premium Edition (syslog-ng PE) version 7.0.27:
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Improvements to disk-buffering
From version 7.0.27, syslog-ng PE disk-buffering performance has been improved.
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Improvements to the mongodb() destination
From version 7.0.27, the mongodb() destination supports multiple workers to increase the performance when forwarding logs to a MongoDB server.
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New syslog-ng-ctl stats metrics
From syslog-ng PE version 7.0.27, the following new monitoring metrics are available:
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EPS
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average message sizes
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maximum message sizes
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New OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1l
From version 7.0.27, syslog-ng PE supports OpenSSL version 1.1.1l.