v1.8.11

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Release Notes v1.8.11

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 v1.8.11.

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

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

News

Fluent Bit v1.8.11 is the stable release!, new changes on this version:

Core

• engine: do not retry if the engine is shutting down
• engine: enforce and reduce shutdown time
• network: fixed async usage when not in a coroutine error
• network: added dns resolver type selection mechanism (net.dns.resolver)
• network: on tcp connect change exception from error to debug
• network: detect if socket has been invalidated
• utils: detect and replace ill-formed utf-8 bytes (#4297)
• upstream: detect shutdown and reduce log noise
• upstream: fix deadlock when destroying connections
• input_chunk: don’t pause ingestion if filesystem storage is enabled (#4221) (#4411)
• proxy: fail on missing FLBPluginRegister symbol (#4409)

Libraries

Plugins

• Forward (Input)
  • Removed unused variables (#4429)
• Rewrite_Tag (Filter)
  • Add null check(#4246)
• Elasticsearch (Output)
  • Fix buffer size when converted_size is equal to 0. (#4414)

Join us

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• Slack: http://slack.fluentd.org
• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fluent-bit
• Github: http://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit
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