The new scheduled-stable release of rsyslog, version 8.2602.0 (2026.02), is now available. As the company behind rsyslog, Adiscon contributed a substantial portion of the engineering work in this cycle, including major new deployment assets, telemetry integration, security hardening, documentation, and release engineering.
This scheduled-stable version is a bi-monthly snapshot of daily-stable and provides a predictable update point for operators. For full technical details, please refer to the full rsyslog 8.2602.0 release announcement on rsyslog.com.
Highlight 1: ROSI Collector as a production-ready centralized log collection stack
The most visible Adiscon-led addition in this release is ROSI Collector, a production-ready Docker Compose stack for centralized log collection and monitoring. It combines rsyslog log reception with Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, Traefik, and TLS-enabled syslog ingestion into a directly usable operational package.
Highlight 2: stronger telemetry and policy-driven operation
rsyslog 8.2602.0 also advances telemetry and control capabilities with named rate-limit policies, Prometheus Remote Write support in impstats, and native protobuf encoding for omotel over HTTP. These features make it easier to integrate rsyslog into modern observability and control pipelines.
Highlight 3: security, TLS, and runtime hardening
A large part of this cycle focused on reliability and security work across TLS handling, queue recovery, worker lifecycle behavior, and HTTP forwarding. This kind of behind-the-scenes engineering is central to how Adiscon helps keep rsyslog stable and production-ready for demanding environments.
You can learn more about this interplay in our article on open source and commercial development at Adiscon.
Full technical details
All module-level changes, compatibility notes, and contributor credits are available in the full rsyslog 8.2602.0 release announcement.
We thank everyone who contributed to this release — both Adiscon engineers and community contributors — for their work.