rsyslog v7.6.3

This version bump was long overdue sorry and it has happened only thanks to the great work of Thomas D. aka @Whissi, thanks again mate.

Please read carefully because this version introduces major ebuild changes, you'll probably have to adapt your current configuration !

ebuild changes¶

New default configuration with up to date syntax, we changed a lot of things so I'll quote the README coming with this bump.

"/var/log/syslog" log file is now deprecated

Beginning with rsyslog-7.6, the "/var/log/syslog" log file will no longer being written per default. We are considering this file as deprecated/obsolet for the typical user/system. The content from this log file is still available through other (dedicated) log files, see

 - /var/log/cron.log
 - /var/log/daemon.log
 - /var/log/mail.log
 - /var/log/messages

If you really need the old "/var/log/syslog" log file, all you have to do is uncommenting the corresponding configuration directive in "/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf".

If you do so, don't forget to re-enable log rotation in "/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog", too.

An additional input socket in /var/empty/dev/log (default chroot location) will be created per default
brand new and modern init script

rsyslog-7.6.3¶

Coming from the rsyslog release announcement page, this is what happened with the 7.6 branch release :

With 7.6 being the successor of the 7.5 development branch, everything that has been added there has now found its way into the stable version.

The major additions consist of : - imrelp/omrelp now support TLS & (zip) compression - impstats is now emitting resource usage counters, can directly emit delta values and can now be bound to a ruleset - mmpstrucdata is a new module to parse RFC5424 structured data into JSON message properties - mmutf8fix is a new module to fix invalid UTF-8 sequences - mmsequence is a new module that helps with action load balancing - new defaults for main/ruleset queues to be more enterprise-like

Also the new stable version has undergone a lot of bug fixes, performance improvements and optimizations that make rsyslog 7.6 a lot more reliable and performing than before.