v1.8.7

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Release Notes v1.8.7

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 v1.8.7.

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 v1.8.7 is the stable release!, new changes on this version:

Core

• oauth2: release upstream connection on exit (#4095)
• upstream: fix mutex lock on pending destroy connections
• http_server: health: check if hs_health_key is NULL(#3983)
• http_server: metrics: add destructor to prevent leak
• output: initialize network defaults for output instances (#4050) (#4088)
• input: pause file storage when going over chunk limit. (#4077)
• config: add scheduler cap and base (#4099)
• aws_util: support auto_retry_requests for failed connections
• aws_util: set max response buffer size for the http client (#4047)
• lib: monkey: thread-local-storage fixes (#4101)

Plugins

• Lua (Filter)
  • Calculate table size using table.maxn (#3433)
• Nest (Filter)
  • Change log level (#4005)
• Record_Modifier (Filter)
  • Set the limit of bool_map
  • Dynamic allocate bool_map (#3968)
• Kubernetes (Filter)
  • New option use_tag_for_meta to use tag for metadata (#4062)
• S3 (Output)
  • Support auto_retry_requests for failed connections
• Prometheus_Exporter (Output)
  • Use instance host/port api (#4070) (#4081)
• Cloudwatch_Logs (Output)
  • Support auto_retry_requests for failed connections
• Elasticsearch (Output)
  • AWS is rebranding to Amazon OpenSearch service (text changes only)
• Kinesis_Streams (Output)
  • Change log level from info to debug for log send statement
  • Support auto_retry_requests for failed connections
• Kinesis_Firehose (Output)
  • Change log level from info to debug for log send statement
  • Support auto_retry_requests for failed connections

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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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