rsyslog 1.0.4 / 1.19.1

Rsyslog is a FREE software, GPL lincesed enhanced syslogd. Among others, it offers support for MySQL and fully configurable output formats (including great timestamps). Rsyslog was initiated by Rainer Gerhards. It has been forked from the sysklogd standard package.
The goal of the rsyslog project is to provide a more configurable and reliable syslog deamon. By "reliable", we mean support for reliable transmission modes like TCP or RFC 3195 (syslog-reliable). We do NOT imply that the sysklogd package is unreliable.
In fact, the opposite is the case and we assume that for the time being the well-used sysklogd package offers better program reliability than our brand-new modifications to it.
The name "rsyslog" stems back to the planned support for syslog-reliable. Ironically, the initial release of rsyslog does NEITHER support syslog-reliable NOR tcp based syslog. Instead, it contains enhanced configurability and other enhancements (like database support).
The reason for this is that full support for RFC 3195 would require even more changes and especially fundamental architectural changes. Also, questions asked on the loganalysis list and at other places indicated that RFC3195 is NOT a prime priority for users, but rather better control over the output format.
So here we are, with a rsyslod that covers a lot of enhancements, but not a single one of these that made its name
The next enhancement scheduled is support for the new syslog-protocol internet draft format, not the least to see how easy/complicated it is to implement. We already know that some subleties of syslog-protocol will require at least one considerable architectural change to the syslogd and this might delay things a little.
Our immediate goal is to receive feedback and get the bugs out of the current release. Only after that we intend to advance the code and introduce new features.
Whats New in 1.19.1 Development Release:
- a bug that caused a high load when a TCP/UDP connection was closed is fixed now - Thanks mildew for solving this issue
- fixed a bug which caused a segfault on reinit - Thx varmojfekoj for the patch
- changed the hardcoded module path "/lib/rsyslog" to $(pkglibdir) in order to avoid trouble e.g. on 64 bit platforms (/lib64) - many thanks Peter Vrabec and darix, both provided a patch for solving this issue
- enhanced the unloading of modules - thanks again varmojfekoj
- applied a patch from varmojfekoj which fixes various little things in MySQL output module