v1.6.4

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Release Notes v1.6.4

Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v1.6.4.

For people upgrading from previous versions you must read the Upgrading Notes section of our documentation:

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/installation/upgrade_notes

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Changes

Fluent Bit v1.6.4 is the minor release on 1.6 that comes with the following changes:

Core

• http_client: use HTTP_PROXY environment varialble for proxy globally
• io: fix flb_io_net_connect only opening sync connections (#2750)
• lib: use context status to monitor thread
• parser: fix to ensure string size is enough for comparison (oss-fuzz testcase 5200866812100608)
• parser: ensure proper string null-termination (oss-fuzz 26327)
• parser: fix insecure string pass (oss-fuzz 26325)
• hash: fix null-derefence by ensure id is within size (oss-fuzz test case 5672848712269824)
• utils: fix case of empty string in time to sec conversion (oss-fuzz 26593)
• utils: fix bad handling of utf-8 parsing (oss-fuzz 26304)
• config_map: fix cases where kv->val is NULL (oss-fuzz issue 27023)
• strptime: fix bounds check (oss-fuzz 27241)
• gzip: fix compression size calculation (oss-fuzz 27261)

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