diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog-light/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog-light/package.nix
index 1a0aab3a1036..5f259f18f168 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog-light/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog-light/package.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 }:
 
 rsyslog.override {
+  withLibyaml = false;
   withKrb5 = false;
   withSystemd = false;
   withJemalloc = false;
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog/package.nix
index 7019ed63e8e2..dccac3ae60ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/rs/rsyslog/package.nix
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
   fetchurl,
   pkg-config,
   autoreconfHook,
+  autoconf-archive,
   libestr,
   json_c,
   zlib,
   docutils,
   libfastjson,
+  withLibyaml ? true,
+  libyaml,
   withKrb5 ? true,
   libkrb5,
   withSystemd ? lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform systemd,
@@ -62,16 +65,17 @@
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "rsyslog";
-  version = "8.2512.0";
+  version = "8.2606.0";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "https://www.rsyslog.com/files/download/rsyslog/rsyslog-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.gz";
-    hash = "sha256-k8UAJdkLbHlfo1DVaj2DK/zkUEPqm9aCQNnCqTlLxik=";
+    hash = "sha256-JXSz8waOaVXrlO9WQ+K2pbhYXMjqp3IJ/1y8Hi5fceU=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     pkg-config
     autoreconfHook
+    autoconf-archive
     docutils
   ];
 
@@ -81,6 +85,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     json_c
     zlib
   ]
+  ++ lib.optional withLibyaml libyaml
   ++ lib.optional withKrb5 libkrb5
   ++ lib.optional withJemalloc jemalloc
   ++ lib.optional withPostgres libpq
@@ -112,6 +117,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     "--with-systemdsystemunitdir=\${out}/etc/systemd/system"
     (lib.enableFeature true "largefile")
     (lib.enableFeature true "regexp")
+    (lib.enableFeature withLibyaml "libyaml")
     (lib.enableFeature withKrb5 "gssapi-krb5")
     (lib.enableFeature true "klog")
     (lib.enableFeature true "kmsg")
@@ -157,6 +163,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     (lib.enableFeature false "imsolaris")
     (lib.enableFeature true "imptcp")
     (lib.enableFeature true "impstats")
+    (lib.enableFeature false "impstats-push")
     (lib.enableFeature true "omprog")
     (lib.enableFeature withNet "omudpspoof")
     (lib.enableFeature true "omstdout")