v1.8.2

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Release Notes v1.8.2

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 v1.8.2.

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

Quick Summary of “New things”

New Multiline, Filter and Documentation

• Multiline Filter
• Multiline Parsing Config
• Tail + New Multiline Support

News

Fluent Bit v1.8.2 is the stable release!, new changes on this version:

Core

• input_chunk: use new api to determinate logs vs metrics
• input: fix event type checker for metrics
• output: don’t return uninitialized variable
• general: add docker_compose examples to the repo
• pack_gelf: ensure proper cleanup in case of failure
• multiline: extend support for concat records and override properties
• multiline: append breakline on raw text concatenation
• signv4: fix NULL dereference
• build: fix rpm user file list.

Libs

• cmetrics: upgrade to v0.1.5
• snappy: new Snappy library

Plugins

• Tail (Input)
  • Add new option skip_empty_lines (default: false)
• Node Exporter Metrics (Input)
  • Do not enqueue data before the collector start
  • Fix compiler warnings
  • Add filefd Linux collector
  • Add vmstat and netdev Linux collectors
• Multiline (Filter)
  • New multiline filter
• S3 (Output)
  • Fix compiler warnings
  • Fix use-after-free in destructor
• Prometheus Remote Write (Output)
  • New Prometheus Remote Write output plugin
• Influxdb (Output)
  • Enable http debug callbacks
  • Rename option header as http_header
  • Migrate to configmap and append new options
  • Add support for native metrics handling
• Kafka (Output)
  • Upgrade librdkafka v1.6.0 to v1.7.0
• Prometheus Exporter (Output)
  • Support multiple metrics
  • Remove unused variable
• Splunk (Output)
  • Set channel len on init
• Loki (Output)
  • Do not retry when Loki returns 400.
• Elasticsearch (Output)
  • Estimate bulk size to less reallocation(#3775)

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
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• Twitter: @fluentbit