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A new HEADER
More HEADER fields, including a version number
Other HEADER fields (e.g. TIMESTAMP) more precisely defined
Modelled in a way that legacy and RFC 3164 syslog will see messages as “messages without header” - their resulting processing is probably the best that we can get from legacy implementations (at least nothing is messed up and everything from the -protocol message is kept intact).