Overview Traditionally the rsyslog community has sought and provided support through three main channels: mailing list forums ticketing system (at one time Bugzilla, now GitHub) Over the years, the community support options have shifted to the point that we are considering retiring the forums in order to best direct users that post there to other, […]
Version support policy change
We will be changing our policy so that only the latest stable build will be officially supported. This is done in an effort to concentrate resouces on building new and great things, instead of wasting a lot of time merging from old versions. A lot of -competing- projects have this policy and thus can move […]
legacy options support
Via the compatibility mode option (-c), rsyslog still supports legacy options (like -t to start a tcp listener). This code complicates a couple of things quite a bit, especially in regard to the config system. We are very tempted to drop support for legacy options in v6. That could lead to smaller and simpler code. […]