v1.8.12

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Release Notes v1.8.12

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 v1.8.12.

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

https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/1.8/installation/upgrade_notes

News

Fluent Bit v1.8.12 is the stable release!, new changes on this version:

Core

• tls: openssl: fix error handling for OpenSSL apis (#4584)
• input chunk: correctly calculate the difference when chunks grow (#4318) (#4461)
• parser: if multiline parser is set, get the reference
• network: properly react to being awoken due to a timeout
• network: preserve addrlinfo list release address
• network: argument type error correction
• network: added net.dns.prefer_ipv4 result priorization option
• build: add a sample config file for Windows
• upstream: moved event injection and implemented timeout wakeup mechanism
• upstream: add new option net.connect_timeout_log_error (#4473)
• input_chunk: warn the user about tag truncation due to limits (#4467)
• dockerfiles: backport systemd lib fixes from #3177 to 1.8 (#4567)

Tests:

• tests: internal: timeout: added coroutine hang test case (#4605)
• tests: runtime: add tests for multiline filter
• tests: runtime: in_tail: new multiline + json + regex test

Libs:

• lib: mbedtls: upgrade from v2.27 -> v2.28
• lib: monkey: sync inject enhancement and list fixes (#4623)
• lib: monkey: sync fix for config reader

Plugins

• Forward (Input)
  • Clear out_tag before using it (#4670)
  • Add new option tag_prefix (#4455) (#4466)
• Tail (Input)
  • Enhance handling of high number of static files (#3947)
  • Fix multiline api buffer ingestion (#4554)
• Exec (Input)
  • Don’t eat last character of plugin output (#4655)
• Rewrite_Tag (Filter)
  • Set ‘keep’ before emitting the record (#4518)
• Multiline (Filter)
  • Implement buffered mode using in_emitter
• S3 (Output)
  • Add support for external_id
• Kinesis_Firehose (Output)
  • Add support for external_id
• Cloudwatch (Output)
  • Add support for external_id
  • Fix invalid memory access bug #4425
• Splunk (Output)
  • New http_debug_bad_request option
  • Auto-set http response buffer size if http_buffer_size is not set or zero
• Forward (Output)
  • Add missing ra check (#4511)
• Stackdriver (Output)
  • Protect against undefined metadata (#4664)
• Kinesis_Streams (Output)
  • Add support for external_id

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