v1.7.9

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Release Notes v1.7.9

Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Processor and Forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v1.7.9.

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

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

Changes

Fluent Bit v1.7.9 is the patch release on top of 1.7 series that comes with the following changes:

Core

• oauth2: release upstream connections before return
• hash: add configurable TTL for cached metadata
• network: make async dns query use TCP socket instead of UDP
• utils: fix integer overflow guard. (#3593)
• output_thread: fixed wrong pipe io function usage
• metrics: allow metric name up to 64 bytes
• http_server: api/v1: metrics: add fluentbit_uptime on prometheus output
• output: add new ‘dropped_records_total’ and ‘retried_records_total’ metrics
• http_client: fix NO_PROXY matching condition (#3627)
• pack: on exception, release unpacked result

Lib:

• monkey: fix http_parser

Plugins

• Tail (Input)
  • Fix handling of ‘db.journal_mode’ option
• Kubernetes (Filter)
  • Add configurable ttl for cached metadata
• S3 (Output)
  • Fix documentation for total_file_size option
• Cloudwatch_Logs (Output)
  • Fix log loss issue #3638
  • Fail request when x-amzn-requestid header is not set
• Loki (Output)
  • Release ra_kv at error case
• Bigquery (Output)
  • Always release unpacked results after formatting
  • On token renewal, cleanup oauth2 payload buffer
  • Fix oauth2 handling renewal and serialize access
• Stackdriver (Output)
  • Add new metrics ‘stackdriver_failed_requests’ and ‘stackdriver_successful_requests’

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