diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index f9727ae6..a5522869 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5298,3 +5298,10 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   cDevice::TrickSpeed() (suggested by Martin Dauskardt).
 - Added a missing 'P' to vdr.c's SHUTDOWNCANCELROMPT macro (reported by Marco
   Schlüßler).
+
+2007-07-28: Version 1.5.7
+
+- All logging now goes to LOG_ERR, because some systems split error, info and
+  debug messages into separate files, which repeatedly caused extra efforts to
+  find out when incomplete log excerpts were attached to problem reports in
+  the past.
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index edc51235..19b22716 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.h 1.294 2007/07/20 14:52:05 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 1.295 2007/07/28 09:45:27 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@
 
 // VDR's own version number:
 
-#define VDRVERSION  "1.5.6"
-#define VDRVERSNUM   10506  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
+#define VDRVERSION  "1.5.7"
+#define VDRVERSNUM   10507  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
 
 // The plugin API's version number:
 
-#define APIVERSION  "1.5.6"
-#define APIVERSNUM   10506  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
+#define APIVERSION  "1.5.7"
+#define APIVERSNUM   10507  // Version * 10000 + Major * 100 + Minor
 
 // When loading plugins, VDR searches them by their APIVERSION, which
 // may be smaller than VDRVERSION in case there have been no changes to
diff --git a/tools.h b/tools.h
index a0c5a528..17875d0b 100644
--- a/tools.h
+++ b/tools.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.h 1.104 2007/07/21 13:35:45 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.h 1.105 2007/07/28 09:43:04 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __TOOLS_H
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ typedef unsigned char uchar;
 
 extern int SysLogLevel;
 
-#define esyslog(a...) void( (SysLogLevel > 0) ? syslog_with_tid(LOG_ERR,   a) : void() )
-#define isyslog(a...) void( (SysLogLevel > 1) ? syslog_with_tid(LOG_INFO,  a) : void() )
-#define dsyslog(a...) void( (SysLogLevel > 2) ? syslog_with_tid(LOG_DEBUG, a) : void() )
+#define esyslog(a...) void( (SysLogLevel > 0) ? syslog_with_tid(LOG_ERR, a) : void() )
+#define isyslog(a...) void( (SysLogLevel > 1) ? syslog_with_tid(LOG_ERR, a) : void() )
+#define dsyslog(a...) void( (SysLogLevel > 2) ? syslog_with_tid(LOG_ERR, a) : void() )
 
 #define LOG_ERROR         esyslog("ERROR (%s,%d): %m", __FILE__, __LINE__)
 #define LOG_ERROR_STR(s)  esyslog("ERROR: %s: %m", s)