v1.6.5

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Release Notes v1.6.5

Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v1.6.5.

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

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/1.6/installation/upgrade_notes

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Changes

Fluent Bit v1.6.5 is the minor release on 1.6 that comes with the following changes:

Core

• engine: manage output events from independent channel (#2661)
• input_chunk: update bytes counter for backoff logs (#2771)
• scheduler: fix problem with SIGSEGV on FreeBSD 12+ (#2781)
• lib: libco: sync changes for FreeBSD and non-gcc compilers
• aws: credentials: add support for EKS_POD_EXECUTION_ROLE

Plugins

• Forward (Output)
  • Add compress option for gzip compression (#2773)
• Stackdriver (Output)
  • Add trace and custom log name support (#2683)
• Loki (Output)
  • New ‘line_format’ option, values: json (default), key_value (#2711)
  • Sanitize labels key names (#2793)
  • Add support for basic auth: http_user and http_passwd
• Syslog (Output)
  • Fix maxsize value handling
• Cloudwatch (Output)
  • Add extra_user_agent option

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