rsyslog status page

This page reflects the status as of 2010-05-20.

Current Releases

development: 5.5.5 [2010-05-20] - change log - download
v4 development: 4.7.2 [2010-05-03] - change log - download

v5 stable: 5.4.0 [2010-03-08] - change log - download
v4 stable: 4.6.2 [2010-03-26] - change log - download
v3 stable: 3.22.1 [2009-07-02] - change log - download
v2 stable: 2.0.7 [2009-04-14] - change log - download
v0 to v2 are deprecated and no longer supported. If you absolutely do not like to upgrade, you may consider purchasing a commercial rsyslog support package. Just let us point out that it is really not a good idea to still run a v0 version.

If you updgrade from version 2, be sure to read the rsyslog v3 compatibility document. There are no additional compatibility concerns at this time for upgrading from v3 to v4. If some occur, we will post an additional compatiblity document.

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Platforms

Thankfully, a number of folks have begin to build packages and help port rsyslog to other platforms. As such, the platform list is now maintained inside the rsyslog wiki. Platform maintainers perhaps have posted extra information there. If you do platform-specific work, feel free to add information to the wiki.

Rsyslog is the default syslogd on almost all modern Linuxes. It is also available under BSD and Sun Solaris.

Additional information

Currently supported features are listed on the rsyslog features page.

• The rsyslog home page is www.rsyslog.com.
• Mailing list info can be found at http://lists.adiscon.com/rsyslog.
• The change log can be found at http://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml.
• Online documentation is available at http://www.rsyslog.com/doc.
• You may also find Rainer's blog an interesting read.

The project was initiated in 2003 and seriouosly begun in 2004 by Rainer Gerhards and is currently being maintained by him. See the history page for more background information.