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I'm proud to announce that both the Open Source and the Premium editions of syslog-ng 3.1 was published and are available on our website. This is an important milestone in multiple ways: the new feature/stable release schema is making its debut the patterndb got significant improvements: new parsers, pdbtool, tagging support the ability to change/add RFC5424 style structured data to messages even more supported platforms (Tru64 on alpha, HP-UX 11iv2 on Itanium and older Linux versions) the diverging developments of syslog-ng Open Source Edition, Premium Edition and syslog-ng Store Box was merged into a new base, Some interesting (ok, for us developers :) statistics follow: Premium Edition: 586 commits 200 files changed, 23479 insertions(+), 5513 deletions(-) Open Source Edition: 189 commits 115 files changed, 9020 insertions(+), 3225 deletions(-) The reason for the big difference is the merger of the currently propriatery log indexer engine used in SSB into the current Premium Edi...

Since the last post, I could hack a couple of hours on the plugins branch, which now compiles. The plugin framework is capable for supporting a quite important core functionality: all socket like sources/destinations are now found in an external plugin called "afsocket". The reason I've started with afsocket is to make syslog-ng a bit less dependant on OpenSSL. A couple of distributions didn't include syslog-ng 3.0 in their current releases, because it uses OpenSSL from /usr, while syslog-ng should remain in the root directory. By separating afsocket from the syslog-ng core, I can compile afsocket with and without TLS support, which can be put into separate packages. Thus syslog-ng can operate without OpenSSL. And the same plugin framework will enable me to create a wide variety of plugins. My ideas: Plugins for all syslog-ng components (source, destination, filter, rewrite, parser) Python scriptability (a simple correllation engine in Python?) macro transformation fu...

Things have been a little rough last couple of months, that's why I haven't posted here. I'm in a rush right now as well, but I just wanted to let you know that I have started working on modularizing syslog-ng. It is only a preliminary prototype, and as of now it doesn't compile, but the way it's going to work is already visible: each plugin will have its own plugin and with some trickery the large syslog-ng.conf parser will call out to the plugin parser. The user will recognize such a plugin as an integral part of syslog-ng. E.g. this is a sample configuration file: @version: 3.0 @module: dummy ... destination d_dummy { dummy(dummy_opt(yes)); }; ... See the dummy plugin code in my git repository, in the "plugins" branch. Please note that that branch is going to be rebased a couple of times yet, I've released it in the spirit of "release early, release often". I hope to get some of the recent contributions into plugins, instead of bloating th...