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diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 1eb37cb050cd6..aadef95258e45 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -51,6 +51,45 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ****************************** +20180406: + In addition to supporting RFC 3164 formatted messages, the + syslogd(8) service is now capable of parsing RFC 5424 formatted + log messages. The main benefit of using RFC 5424 is that clients + may now send log messages with timestamps containing year numbers, + microseconds and time zone offsets. + + Similarly, the syslog(3) C library function has been altered to + send RFC 5424 formatted messages to the local system logging + daemon. On systems using syslogd(8), this change should have no + negative impact, as long as syslogd(8) and the C library are + updated at the same time. On systems using a different system + logging daemon, it may be necessary to make configuration + adjustments, depending on the software used. + + When using syslog-ng, add the 'syslog-protocol' flag to local + input sources to enable parsing of RFC 5424 formatted messages: + + source src { + unix-dgram("/var/run/log" flags(syslog-protocol)); + } + + When using rsyslog, disable the 'SysSock.UseSpecialParser' option + of the 'imuxsock' module to let messages be processed by the + regular RFC 3164/5424 parsing pipeline: + + module(load="imuxsock" SysSock.UseSpecialParser="off") + + Do note that these changes only affect communication between local + applications and syslogd(8). The format that syslogd(8) uses to + store messages on disk or forward messages to other systems + remains unchanged. syslogd(8) still uses RFC 3164 for these + purposes. Options to customize this behaviour will be added in the + future. Utilities that process log files stored in /var/log are + thus expected to continue to function as before. + + __FreeBSD_version has been incremented to 1200061 to denote this + change. + 20180328: Support for token ring networks has been removed. If you have "device token" in your kernel config you should remove |