The last month has seen some interesting additions to the code base (motivated by Doug Burks) which will ultimately aid are non-Debian brethren. The 1.5 series sees the initial completed feature set for Fedora, RHEL and CentOS systems. This is excellent news for those who have wanted to have, use, test an NSM configuration for themselves but were daunted by the process of doing from scratch.

With this being initial release for support to Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS systems there is bound to be some teething problems. So as long as you submit the bug reports, we will fix them and NSMnow will continue to get even better, if that’s possible.

Happy NSM’ing!

Ok, so there’s been some interesting feedback over the past few weeks which has of course manifested itself into more updates. I love updates, and how code evolves over time in the attempt to become the most structured and stable thing it can be.

Enough of the philosophical talk and onto what this beta release provides. I’m not going to say it but hopefully the last of the waldo file issues (record index not being saved on exit) has been solved. My fingers are crossed. There has also been some attention played to the output plugins, namely the alert_cef plugin which was crapped on from a great height on a recent merge. IPv6 is getting a little attention lately courtesy of Breno Silva and the input processing is now accepting IPv6 unified logs.

If you want to help with the IPv6 development (ie. you have a test IPv6 enviornment to play on) then shoot us an email. Other than that, go grab the beta and let us know how you get on.