Hi, speaking for Debian, I try to push new upstream versions to unstable in a timely manner. Unstable and the (hopefully) soon-to-be-released jessie will have 8.4.x.
The version in stable is based on 5.8, so indeed a bit dated. I do provide official backports though whenever it's doable with reasonable effort and there is demand. Currently backports has 7.6. See [1] for the list of currently available version. If there is demand for 8.4 in wheezy/stable, I can certainly look into this. Michael [1] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=rsyslog 2014-10-10 4:37 GMT+02:00 Otis Gospodnetic <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > We recently had a new Logsene <http://sematext.com/logsene/> user who had > some issues tailing a file with application logs and sending them to our > rsyslog. After some digging we looked at the rsyslog version. It turned > out to be 5.x. Ancient! But even scarier was that this was on Ubuntu > 12.04, which I still think of as relatively new! And then I looked at > Ubuntu 14.04 and the upcoming 14.10 and it looks like they only have > 7.4.4. I then looked at CentOS 7, which is really new, and that also has > 7.4.x! > > Aren't all of these quite old and quite different from 8.4.x? > Are there *any* semi-common/popular Linux distros that have rsyslog 8.x? > > Finally, is there anything Adiscon could do or is doing to get 8.x into new > versions of some of the more popular Linux distros? > > In case of Logsene, if we see people having trouble with rsyslog simply > because their distros have very old versions of rsyslog, we may simply have > to recommend Logstash, because when we recommend that we can be pretty sure > people will either have or will get one of the more recent versions.... and > this is probably much easier to install because, I assume, manually > updating rsyslog is tricky because of dependencies, packages, etc. > > I was wondering if there is anything that could be done about this from > rsyslog or Adiscon side? > > Thanks, > Otis > -- > Monitoring * Alerting * Anomaly Detection * Centralized Log Management > Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
