[syslog-ng]syslog-ng 1.9.3 released

[Balazs Scheidler]

hi,

I've released syslog-ng 1.9.3, a new development release from syslog-ng.
The  NEWS entry below summarizes the most important changes. 

NOTE: this is a development release and although it seems to be quite
stable in my environment, it is not yet recommended for production use.
For casual users the 1.6.x branch is still recommended.

The release is available at the usual place: 

http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/upgrades.bbq

Also note that build dependencies have changed since 1.6.x: syslog-ng no
longer requires libol, it uses GLib and EventLog instead. EventLog is
available at

http://www.balabit.com/downloads/syslog-ng/1.9/src/

as it has no separate webpage yet. GLib was originally developed for the
GTK+ toolkit, but is available as a separate package from www.gtk.org

Feedback as always is appreciated.

News for the 1.9.3 release
        Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:38:07 +0100

        Things are going faster these days, a mere three weeks between
        releases. I've been running syslog-ng 1.9.2 on my notebook, and was
        lucky enough to find one or two major bugs this way, but after
        fixing those things are looking good. I've seen _no_ crashes, though
        sometimes syslog-ng blocked on reading an external fd, thus causing
        a system deadlock. Apart from bugfixes the most important changes
        are that documentation is readded and somewhat even updated with the
        new features. It was funny rereading the sentences I wrote a couple
        of years earlier, fixed some embarassing grammatical mistakes. Now,
        back to the topic, the most important changes in this release are:

        * Solaris portability fixes, one of the snapshots already compiled
        cleanly under Solaris, even though I did not test the release itself.
        * Link against the libraries sitting in /usr statically.
        * Fixed possible deadlock on internal messages, it was a bad idea to
        use a pipe internally, it is now replaced with a conventional queue,
        and a special GSource.
        * Fixed another possible deadlock caused by some fds not being set
        to non-blocking mode.
        * EAGAIN and EINTR was not correctly handled in all cases, fixed
        those.
        * Readded documentation, added new macros, template statements, new
        flags.


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Bazsi