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Rework and clean up the package, split off various bindings into separate packages. Add SMF support. Major features and improvements introduced in major releases since 3.2. 3.7 - OpenSSL is now a required dependency for syslog-ng. - Java-destination driver ported from syslog-ng-incubator. - Python language support is ported from syslog-ng incubator. - New Java destination drivers - New Parsers 3.6 - PCRE is now a required dependency of syslog-ng. - Threaded mode is now enabled by default. 3.5 - Multi-line support - STOMP destination - Redis destination - Template type hinting - Template options honored everywhere - Support for unit suffixes in the configuration - The Incubator project 3.4 - New plugins: AMQP & SMTP destinations, JSON parser. - New parsers for patterndb: HOSTNAME, EMAIL, PCRE and LLADDR. - It is now possible to control what db-parser() sees as its input via it's new template() option. - value-pairs() gained support for programmatically rewriting key names in bulk, via the rekey() method. - The network() driver is introduced, unifying and extending tcp(), udp(), syslog(), unix-dgram() and unix-stream(). The old drivers are still available, but - Support for junctions & channels were added, which improve the flexibility of the syslog-ng configuration language. 3.3 - multi-core/CPU scaling: the new multi-threaded architecture allows syslog-ng to scale into the 800k msg/sec region. - MongoDB support: using MongoDB instead of SQL is faster and allows better representation of log data. - JSON support: using the $(format-json) template function it is now possible to construct JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) output for log messages. - A number of enhancements all over the place: SQL, patterndb. - The default ports have changed. syslog-ng is using the standard
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Syslog-ng tries to fill the gaps original syslogd's were lacking:
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* powerful configurability
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* filtering based on message content
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* message integrity, message encryption
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* portability
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* better network forwarding
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