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Release Notes v1.5.7
Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v1.5.7.
For people upgrading from previous versions you must read the Upgrading Notes section of our documentation:
https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/1.5/installation/upgrade_notes
Changes
Fluent Bit v1.5.7 is the next patch release on v1.5 series and comes with the following changes:
List of general changes
Core
- utils: fix bad handling of invalid utf-8 bytes (oss-fuzz 25785)
- strptime: add a fallback macro for
timezone(#2493) - str: use memcpy to silent gcc warning
- pack: gelf: format timestamp as seconds.milliseconds
- pack: gelf: validate incoming object is a map (oss-fuzz 25754)
- pack: Use PRIu64/PRId64 to format 64 bit integers.
- pack: print timestamp formatting timespec fields
- build: on FLB_SMALL mode, do not use ‘strip’ flag for non-gcc compiler
- build: adjust luajit path
Libs
- mbedtls: upgrade from 2.16.5 to 2.24.0
- luajit: upgrade from 2.1.0-beta3 to 2.1.0-dd5032e
- sqlite: upgrade from 3.31.0 to 3.33.0 (#2552)
Plugins
- Cpu (Input)
- Normalize per-process cpu stats by number of cores (#2543)
- Lua (Filter)
- Fix handling of integer/double values (#1932 #1647)
- Kubernetes (Filter)
- Validate metadata is a map
- Forward (Output)
- Always initialize salt with random numbers (#2575)
- File (Output)
- Use flb_time to format timestamp
- Gelf (Output)
- Port the plugin to windows (#2574)
Contributors
On every release, there are many people involved doing contributions to different areas like bug reporting, troubleshooting, documentation and coding, without these contributions from the community, the project won’t be the same and won’t be in the good shape that it is now. So THANK YOU! to everyone who takes part of this journey!
Since the list grows every time, it’s hard to mention every single person involved. In the best effort possible, we are mentioning people who have signed contributions in our GIT project history through commits. We would like to thanks to the following people who have been involved doing coding, bug fixes, documentation and general contributions to this release:
Join us
We want to hear about you, our community is growing, and you can be part of it!, you can contact us at:
- Slack: http://slack.fluentd.org
- Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fluent-bit
- Github: http://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit
- IRC: irc.freenode.net #fluentbit
- Twitter: @fluentbit