KNOWLEDGE BASE
Release Notes v1.8.7
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 v1.8.7.
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 v1.8.7 is the stable release!, new changes on this version:
Core
- oauth2: release upstream connection on exit (#4095)
- upstream: fix mutex lock on pending destroy connections
- http_server: health: check if hs_health_key is NULL(#3983)
- http_server: metrics: add destructor to prevent leak
- output: initialize network defaults for output instances (#4050) (#4088)
- input: pause file storage when going over chunk limit. (#4077)
- config: add scheduler cap and base (#4099)
- aws_util: support auto_retry_requests for failed connections
- aws_util: set max response buffer size for the http client (#4047)
- lib: monkey: thread-local-storage fixes (#4101)
Plugins
- Lua (Filter)
- Calculate table size using table.maxn (#3433)
- Nest (Filter)
- Change log level (#4005)
- Record Modifier (Filter)
- Set the limit of bool_map
- Dynamic allocate bool_map (#3968)
- Kubernetes (Filter)
- New option
use_tag_for_metato use tag for metadata (#4062)
- New option
- S3 (Output)
- Support auto_retry_requests for failed connections
- Prometheus Exporter (Output)
- Use instance host/port api (#4070) (#4081)
- Cloudwatch Logs (Output)
- Support
auto_retry_requestsfor failed connections
- Support
- Elasticsearch (Output)
- AWS is rebranding to Amazon OpenSearch service (text changes only)
- Kinesis Streams (Output)
- Change log level from
infotodebugfor log send statement - Support
auto_retry_requestsfor failed connections
- Change log level from
- Kinesis Firehose (Output)
- Change log level from
infotodebugfor log send statement - Support
auto_retry_requestsfor failed connections
- Change log level from
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!
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