Finally, a new syslog-ng release! As you can see from its version number, this is a bug fix release. It took a bit longer than expected, as we wanted to release it in sync with syslog-ng PE, the commercial variant of syslog-ng. 4.8.2 serves not just as the foundation of the new syslog-ng PE release, but also provides fixes to 4.8.1, which is included in major Linux distributions. This update ensures that all our recent bug fixes reach the majority of our users.

While no dates are set to stone yet, we expect a couple of syslog-ng releases in the near future. As version 4.8.1 is used in major Linux distributions and has a couple of known bugs, we will release 4.8.2 to address those. However, we are also working on 4.9.0, which will bring many changes. Read more at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/a-call-for-testing-the-upcoming-syslog-ng-releases syslog-ng logo

From my previous Active Roles blogs, you could learn how to forward regular Active Roles logs from Windows Event Log to a central syslog-ng server, where it parses, filters, stores and forwards the logs. In this blog, I show you how to work with Active Roles debug logs, that is reading them using syslog-ng Agent for Windows and forwarding them to a central syslog-ng server for long(er) term storage. Debug logs are typically huge and the Active Roles debug logs are no exceptions, so you must make sure that you collect them only when really necessary.

The April syslog-ng newsletter is now on-line: Testing Elasticsearch 9.0.0 beta1 with syslog-ng Working with parsed Active Roles logs in syslog-ng Running syslog-ng PE in RHEL UBI It is available at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2025-04-elasticsearch-beta-active-roles-rhel-ubi syslog-ng logo

Last week, I posted about running nightly syslog-ng container images on arm64. However, you can also install syslog-ng directly on the host (in my case, a Raspberry Pi 3), running the latest Raspberry OS. Read more at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/installing-nightly-syslog-ng-arm64-packages-on-a-raspberry-pi syslog-ng logo

On this day in 1943 Vangelis was born. The very first CD I bought over three decades ago was composed by him: Chariots of Fire. After so many years, I still love his music. My Vangelis collection As you can see, I do not have everything by him. I do not like his earliest and latest works that much, but almost everything in between. Unfortunately I could not find everything on CD.

Last December, the CD shop where I bought most of my collection closed its doors for good. I had seen it coming — the owner had been gradually winding down the business in preparation for retirement — but after nearly 30 years of shopping there, it was still a tough moment. Stereo logo This logo belongs to Periferic Records - Stereo Kft.. Back in the nineties, during my university years, I used to look for this logo at concerts, always hoping to spot a bearded man selling an incredible selection of CDs.

Recently we enabled nightly syslog-ng builds and container builds for arm64. It means that from now on, you can run the latest syslog-ng on 64bit ARM platforms. For this test, I used a Raspberry Pi 3 running the latest Raspberry Pi OS. As I use Podman everywhere else (I am an openSUSE / Fedora guy), I also installed it here for container management. Read more at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/nightly-arm64-syslog-ng-container-builds-are-now-available syslog-ng logo

For many years, the development of syslog-ng happened on the master branch in Git. However, if you follow that branch, you might have noticed that there has not been much activity on it lately. That is because we introduced a new branch in git called “develop”. https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/introducing-the-develop-branch-of-the-syslog-ng-git-repo syslog-ng logo

The March syslog-ng newsletter is now on-line: Test syslog-ng on EPEL 10! Collecting Active Roles logs centrally using the syslog-ng Windows Agent syslog-ng OSE 4.8.1 is now in EPEL 10, quick fix for Elasticsearch It is available at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2025-03-epel-10-elasticsearch-active-roles syslog-ng logo