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Release Notes v1.6.8
Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Forwarder for Linux, BSD and OSX. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v1.6.8.
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 v1.6.8 is the minor release on 1.6 that comes with the following changes:
Core
- socket: fix error socket status check (#2826 #2827)
- input_chunk: Update tag value extraction for backoff logs (#2806)
- parser: Add a new option
time_strict(#2813) - aws: ECS comes before EC2 in standard chain
- json parser: Fix null-dereference (oss-fuzz 27764)
- input: fix socket error during shutdown on Windows (#2812)
- pack gelf: remove uninvited newline
- pack gelf: fix stack buffer overflow on temp variable (oss-fuzz 26237)
- record accessor: fix multiple NULL dereferences (oss-fuzz 27234)
- signv4: fix write heap-overflow (oss-fuzz 27710)
Plugins
- HTTP (Output)
- Do not debug proxy if not enabled
- Gelf (Output)
- Accept possible level values (#2257)
- Biquery (Output)
- Should not discard the last character of URL (#2731)
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!
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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
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- Twitter: @fluentbit