v3.0.3

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Release Notes v3.0.3

Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Processor and Forwarder for Linux, BSD, Windows and macOS. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v3.0.3.

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

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

What’s new ?

In a few words, this release add fixes for OpenTelemetry handling for Traces and Metrics, provides better performance for processors and add enhance some connectors (listed below).

Specific fixes per component:

• Core
  • mp: use referenced values when composing CFL object
  • processor_content_modifier: use copied values for referenced values when converting
  • processor_content_modifier: use new CFL API to reference strings and bytes

• Plugins
  • HTTP (Input)
    • Fix URL decoder by unifying normal interface with the one used in http/1.x
  • Splunk (Input)
    • Store ingested HEC token as metadata
  • HTTP (Output)
    • Use x-ndjson content type for json_lines
  • Chronicle (Output)
    • Allow to handle 1MB or larger chunks
  • Splunk (Output)
    • Migrate to use record_accesor pattern for extracting token
    • Handle HEC token from metadata

• Libraries:
  • CMetrics: upgrade to v0.9.0
  • CTraces: upgrade to v0.5.1
  • CFL: upgrade to v0.5.0

Join us

We want to hear about you, our community is growing and you can be part of it!, you can contact us at:

• Github: http://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit
• Slack: http://slack.fluentd.org
• Twitter: @fluentbit