syslog-ng-incubator-0.4.0

syslog-ng-incubator 0.4.0

This release contains a wide variety of new features as well as several
bugfixes, too. This is the first version with support for syslog-ng 3.6.
Support for older versions of syslog-ng is dropped.

Features

Feature: syslog-ng 3.6 support.

This release adds support for syslog-ng 3.6, but older versions are not supported anymore.

Feature: Kafka destination.

This destination enables sending logs to Apache Kafka messaging system.

Feature: grok parser.

Grok is an advanced pattern format (like PatternDB) used primarily by LogStash,
which allows users to parse unstructured data into a structured format. This module
allows syslog-ng users to use Grok patterns, too.

Feature: ZMQ source/destination.

ZeroMQ is a simple, high-speed messaging protocol. These drivers allows
syslog-ng to send/receive logs from ZeroMQ message brokers.

Feature: Java destination.

Java destination drivers enables the users to write destinations
in Java or in any JVM compatible language.

BugFixes

Bugfix: Fixed counting inserted/sent messages as stored ones.

Bugfix: Fixed two python destination segfaults.

Python exceptions and messages not conforming to UTF-8 do not crash the destination anymore.

Credits

We would like to thank the following people for their contribution:

Balazs Scheidler, Brandon Smith, Fabian Wernli, Gergely Nagy, Laszlo Meszaros,
Pierre-Yves Ritschard, Robert Fekete, Sandor Irhazi, Viktor Juhasz,
Viktor Tusa