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NOTE: This is a minor hotfix release that covers for corner cases for metrics handling. We keep same release notes as part of v2
Release Notes v2.1.2
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 v2.1.2.
Introduction
Fluent Bit v2.1 is the start of the new stable series of the project. During the last months our primary focus has been around extending support for Metrics, Traces and improving performance, among many others.
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Core
- developer guide: document the option
-DFLB_VALGRIND=on - build: stream processor don’t require c++
- build: macOS: Don’t override OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR cmake option if specified
- developer guide: document the option
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Libs
- CFL: upgrade to v0.2.3
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Plugins
- Opentelemetry (Input)
- Fix warning at build time
- Forward (Input)
- Allow to override events tag with ’tag’ property
- Podman Metrics (Input)
- Fixed unit tests on cgroupsv2
- Forward (Output)
- Added code to drop metadata by default
- Opentelemetry (Input)
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:
- Github: http://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit
- Slack: http://slack.fluentd.org
- Twitter: @fluentbit