Index: UPDATING
===================================================================
--- UPDATING
+++ UPDATING
@@ -51,6 +51,45 @@
 
 ****************************** SPECIAL WARNING: ******************************
 
+20180404:
+	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
Index: lib/libc/gen/syslog.3
===================================================================
--- lib/libc/gen/syslog.3
+++ lib/libc/gen/syslog.3
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)syslog.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd November 5, 2017
+.Dd April 3, 2018
 .Dt SYSLOG 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@
 .It Dv LOG_PID
 Log the process id with each message: useful for identifying
 instantiations of daemons.
+On
+.Fx ,
+this option is enabled by default.
 .El
 .Pp
 The
Index: lib/libc/gen/syslog.c
===================================================================
--- lib/libc/gen/syslog.c
+++ lib/libc/gen/syslog.c
@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@
 __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
 
 #include "namespace.h"
-#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/param.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #include <sys/syslog.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/uio.h>
 #include <sys/un.h>
 #include <netdb.h>
@@ -134,11 +135,13 @@
 static void
 vsyslog1(int pri, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
 {
-	int cnt;
+	struct timeval now;
+	struct tm tm;
 	char ch, *p;
-	time_t now;
-	int fd, saved_errno;
-	char *stdp, tbuf[2048], fmt_cpy[1024], timbuf[26], errstr[64];
+	long tz_offset;
+	int cnt, fd, saved_errno;
+	char hostname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN], *stdp, tbuf[2048], fmt_cpy[1024],
+	    errstr[64], tz_sign;
 	FILE *fp, *fmt_fp;
 	struct bufcookie tbuf_cookie;
 	struct bufcookie fmt_cookie;
@@ -168,24 +171,46 @@
 	if (fp == NULL)
 		return;
 
-	/* Build the message. */
-	(void)time(&now);
-	(void)fprintf(fp, "<%d>", pri);
-	(void)fprintf(fp, "%.15s ", ctime_r(&now, timbuf) + 4);
+	/* Build the message according to RFC 5424. Tag and version. */
+	(void)fprintf(fp, "<%d>1 ", pri);
+	/* Timestamp similar to RFC 3339. */
+	if (gettimeofday(&now, NULL) == 0 &&
+	    localtime_r(&now.tv_sec, &tm) != NULL) {
+		if (tm.tm_gmtoff < 0) {
+			tz_sign = '-';
+			tz_offset = -tm.tm_gmtoff;
+		} else {
+			tz_sign = '+';
+			tz_offset = tm.tm_gmtoff;
+		}
+
+		(void)fprintf(fp,
+		    "%04d-%02d-%02d"		/* Date. */
+		    "T%02d:%02d:%02d.%06ld"	/* Time. */
+		    "%c%02ld:%02ld ",		/* Time zone offset. */
+		    tm.tm_year + 1900, tm.tm_mon + 1, tm.tm_mday,
+		    tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min, tm.tm_sec, now.tv_usec,
+		    tz_sign, tz_offset / 3600, (tz_offset % 3600) / 60);
+	} else
+		(void)fprintf(fp, "- ");
+	/* Hostname. */
+	(void)gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
+	(void)fprintf(fp, "%s ", hostname);
 	if (LogStat & LOG_PERROR) {
 		/* Transfer to string buffer */
 		(void)fflush(fp);
 		stdp = tbuf + (sizeof(tbuf) - tbuf_cookie.left);
 	}
+	/*
+	 * Application name, process ID, message ID and structured data.
+	 * Provide the process ID regardless of whether LOG_PID has been
+	 * specified, as it provides valuable information. Many
+	 * applications tend not to use this, even though they should.
+	 */
 	if (LogTag == NULL)
 		LogTag = _getprogname();
-	if (LogTag != NULL)
-		(void)fprintf(fp, "%s", LogTag);
-	if (LogStat & LOG_PID)
-		(void)fprintf(fp, "[%d]", getpid());
-	if (LogTag != NULL) {
-		(void)fprintf(fp, ": ");
-	}
+	(void)fprintf(fp, "%s %d - - ",
+	    LogTag == NULL ? "-" : LogTag, getpid());
 
 	/* Check to see if we can skip expanding the %m */
 	if (strstr(fmt, "%m")) {
@@ -313,7 +338,7 @@
 		struct iovec iov[2];
 		struct iovec *v = iov;
 
-		p = strchr(tbuf, '>') + 1;
+		p = strchr(tbuf, '>') + 3;
 		v->iov_base = p;
 		v->iov_len = cnt - (p - tbuf);
 		++v;
Index: sys/sys/param.h
===================================================================
--- sys/sys/param.h
+++ sys/sys/param.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
  *		in the range 5 to 9.
  */
 #undef __FreeBSD_version
-#define __FreeBSD_version 1200060	/* Master, propagated to newvers */
+#define __FreeBSD_version 1200061	/* Master, propagated to newvers */
 
 /*
  * __FreeBSD_kernel__ indicates that this system uses the kernel of FreeBSD,