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As it turned out the 2.0.0 release was not so bad after all. At least I have not received show-stopper bugreports, which either means that noone is using it, or everything is fine and dandy :). Hopefully it is the latter, rc releases were tested by a few people. In the meanwhile I started adding a few missing bits that were still present in 1.6.x but I never got around to implementing in the 2.0.0 tree. Among them I readded the remove_if_older() option. By the way, I don't really like the name of this option, does anyone have a better idea? If you do, please put it in a comment here or send me an email. (I was thinking about retention_time() but I'm afraid it is more difficult to understand what it would do) The other bit is the new/shiny DNS cache, which also supports persistent entries. This means that syslog-ng can read your /etc/hosts file, resolve IPs that are present there, and use IP addresses for anything else. This removes the dependency on DNS, and should also improve...

You might have already noticed, but I thought I'd write an entry on this blog on this topic: the wait is over I have released syslog-ng 2.0.0. It took a bit longer than I have anticipated, I needed to prepare 4 rc releases, as each had some bug here or there and I really wanted to release a stable 2.0.0 I hopefully succeeded, no breakage reported so far. 2.0.0 was released last saturday, but the announcement went out only on Friday. Some rarely used functionality is still missing though (a prominent example is spoof_source), and I already committed the remove_if_older() option after the release of 2.0.0. I'm going to concentrate on filling the missing bits. I'll try to avoid committing to 1.6.x, migrating to 2.0.x is strongly recommended.