Fedora 44, CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux syslog-ng questions
"Peter Czanik (pczanik)" <[email protected]> Tue, 19 May 2026 11:56:32 +0000
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--===============2230874154884502742== Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_CO1PR19MB5126F3ECADD1C9C47B6A4E848B002CO1PR19MB5126namp_" --_000_CO1PR19MB5126F3ECADD1C9C47B6A4E848B002CO1PR19MB5126namp_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, This is a repost of my blog from last week, here on the mailing list. I nee= d your feedback on CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux 2023 packages. You can respond= here, or even better: at the URL at the end of my e-mail. Peter Fedora 44 was announced last week: syslog-ng 4.11 is part of it. While chec= king the Fedora Copr build service for Fedora 44, I realized that CentOS 7 = and Amazon Linux 2023 packages are also there. I have a few questions about= those for you! Fedora 44 The availability of the Fedora 44 release was announced last week. Vesion 4= .11 of syslog-ng, the current latest release, is part of it. As usual, I di= d a quick test: everything works as expected. RHEL 6 The removal of RHEL 6 packages from Copr was announced many years ago. Then= , the countdown was silently canceled. I have just checked: RHEL 6 packages= are no longer available, so I deleted all my related repositories. Also, I= deleted a couple of temporary test repos along the way. CentOS 7 When talking to product manager friends around the world, I realized that s= yslog-ng is not an =93enterprise=94 application. =93Enterprise=94 developer= s are still actively maintaining packages for RHEL 6, when even RHEL 7 has = reached end of life a long time ago. Of course, this is just a satirical de= finition of =93enterprise=94, at least in my view=85 Support for RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 was dropped in syslog-ng a month before the d= istro became end-of-life. Copr announced the deletion of CentOS 7 packages,= but after a while, the countdown suddenly disappeared. Packages built 10+ = years ago are still here, and CentOS 7 is still a valid build target. Question: is there anyone still using my syslog-ng packages on RHEL 7 / Cen= tOS 7? Otherwise, I would be happy to delete anything related from my Copr = repositories. I could delete many repositories, save storage, and I would n= ot have to deselect them as a build target during package builds. Amazon Linux 2023 Another question mark in my mind is Amazon Linux 2023 support. If we can be= lieve the download statistics provided by Copr, then this is one of the mos= t popular syslog-ng repos on Copr. However, over the years, I only received= a single feedback about it, which was on Twitter years ago: =93Thanks, I u= se it.=94 That is all. While there were regular requests to create these pa= ckages, nobody asked for features, updates, whatever. The repo is still stu= ck at syslog-ng version 4.8. Question: should I update syslog-ng to a more recent version, as time permi= ts? What is next? Share your thoughts with us in this syslog-ng GitHub discussion: https://gi= thub.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/discussions/5691 or reach out to me on Twitter= / Mastodon / LinkedIn. Peter Czanik (CzP) <[email protected]> One Identity (Balabit) / syslog-ng upstream https://syslog-ng.com/community/ https://twitter.com/PCzanik --_000_CO1PR19MB5126F3ECADD1C9C47B6A4E848B002CO1PR19MB5126namp_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> <style type=3D"text/css" style=3D"display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bo= ttom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir=3D"ltr"> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Hi,</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> This is a repost of my blog from last week, here on the mailing list. I nee= d your feedback on CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux 2023 packages. You can respond= here, or even better: at the URL at the end of my e-mail.</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Peter</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Fedora 44 was announced last week: syslog-ng 4.11 is part of it. While chec= king the Fedora Copr build service for Fedora 44, I realized that CentOS 7 = and Amazon Linux 2023 packages are also there. I have a few questions about= those for you!</div> <figure style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-famil= y: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 20px;"> <div style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <b>Fedora 44</b></div> </figure> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The availability of the Fedora 44 release was announced last week. Vesion 4= .11 of syslog-ng, the current latest release, is part of it. As usual, I di= d a quick test: everything works as expected.</div> <div id=3D"rhel-6" class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"margin: 0.67em 0px;"> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helve= tica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <b>RHEL 6</b></div> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The removal of RHEL 6 packages from Copr was announced many years ago. Then= , the countdown was silently canceled. I have just checked: RHEL 6 packages= are no longer available, so I deleted all my related repositories. Also, I= deleted a couple of temporary test repos along the way.</div> <div id=3D"centos-7" class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"margin: 0.67em 0px;"= > <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helve= tica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <b>CentOS 7</b></div> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> When talking to product manager friends around the world, I realized that s= yslog-ng is not an =93enterprise=94 application. =93Enterprise=94 developer= s are still actively maintaining packages for RHEL 6, when even RHEL 7 has = reached end of life a long time ago. Of course, this is just a satirical definition of =93enterprise=94, at least = in my view=85</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Support for RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 was dropped in syslog-ng a month before the d= istro became end-of-life. Copr announced the deletion of CentOS 7 packages,= but after a while, the countdown suddenly disappeared. Packages built 10+ = years ago are still here, and CentOS 7 is still a valid build target.</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Question: is there anyone still using my syslog-ng packages on RHEL 7 / Cen= tOS 7? Otherwise, I would be happy to delete anything related from my Copr = repositories. I could delete many repositories, save storage, and I would n= ot have to deselect them as a build target during package builds.</div> <div id=3D"amazon-linux-2023" class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"margin: 0.6= 7em 0px;"> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helve= tica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <b>Amazon Linux 2023</b></div> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Another question mark in my mind is Amazon Linux 2023 support. If we can be= lieve the download statistics provided by Copr, then this is one of the mos= t popular syslog-ng repos on Copr. However, over the years, I only received= a single feedback about it, which was on Twitter years ago: =93Thanks, I use it.=94 That is all. While there= were regular requests to create these packages, nobody asked for features,= updates, whatever. The repo is still stuck at syslog-ng version 4.8.</div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Question: should I update syslog-ng to a more recent version, as time permi= ts?</div> <div id=3D"what-is-next" class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"margin: 0.67em 0= px;"> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helve= tica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <b>What is next?</b></div> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; = line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Aptos, = Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; fo= nt-size: 12pt;"> <span style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Share your thoughts with us in this sy= slog-ng GitHub discussion: </span><span style=3D"color: rgb(53, 126, 221);"><a href=3D"https://github.= com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/discussions/5691" id=3D"OWA0474599e-7c4e-0b65-f95f-= d368f4e3659c" class=3D"OWAAutoLink" style=3D"color: rgb(53, 126, 221);">htt= ps://github.com/syslog-ng/syslog-ng/discussions/5691</a></span><span style= =3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> or reach out to me on Twitter / Mastodon / LinkedIn.</span></div> <div style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, = Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div id=3D"Signature" class=3D"elementToProof"> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFo= nt, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri= , Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Peter Czanik (CzP) <[email protected]><br> One Identity (Balabit) / syslog-ng upstream<br> <a href=3D"https://syslog-ng.com/community/" target=3D"_blank" id=3D"OWA0a4= 99e14-a029-2a24-04ec-d08d4776e302" class=3D"OWAAutoLink">https://syslog-ng.= com/<wbr>community/</a><br> <a href=3D"https://twitter.com/PCzanik" target=3D"_blank" id=3D"OWAe0bfa0a1= -91df-0870-f64c-b609d8153308" class=3D"OWAAutoLink">https://twitter.com/PCz= anik</a></div> <div class=3D"elementToProof" style=3D"font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helveti= ca, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> </div> </body> </html> --_000_CO1PR19MB5126F3ECADD1C9C47B6A4E848B002CO1PR19MB5126namp_-- --===============2230874154884502742== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ______________________________________________________________________________ Member info: %(web_page_url)slistinfo/%(_internal_name)s Documentation: http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/?product=syslog-ng FAQ: http://www.balabit.com/wiki/syslog-ng-faq --===============2230874154884502742==--