v4.0.5

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Release Notes v4.0.5

Fluent Bit is a Fast and Lightweight Data Processor and Forwarder for Linux, BSD, Windows and macOS. We are proud to announce the availability of Fluent Bit v4.0.5.

Below is a detailed list of changes included in this release…

What’s new ?

Core

• aws: restore IMDS timeouts after upstream_set in EC2 provider (PR #10637)
• upstream: add new net.proxy_env_ignore variable (PR #10638)
• network
  • enable EDNS for DNS queries to support large responses (PR #10589)
• tls
  • openssl: Make configurable certstore name (PR #10640)
  • openssl: Add setting up interface for certstore (PR #10640)
• output
  • Load CertStore with a user-defined store name (PR #10640)
  • Add debug messages for loading certificates from certstore (PR #10640)
• pack
  • Handle UINT_MAX value correctly (PR #10640)
  • tests: Add test cases for INT_MAX and UINT_MAX cases for json packing (PR #10640)

Plugins

• Windows exporter (Input)
  • Add cache metrics (PR #10627)
• Windows exporter metrics (Input)
  • Handle Cache and System special types (PR #10627)
  • Add average queued metrics for logical_disk (PR #10627)
  • Add output_queue_length_packets for net (PR #10627)
  • Fix a wrong prometheus name (PR #10627)
  • Support TCPv4/TCPv6 metrics (PR #10627)
  • Fix calculations and names for paging files (PR #10627)
  • Add support for total size_bytes of logical_disk (PR #10627)
  • Support more metrics for CPU (PR #10627)
  • Support retrival of second values of perflib (PR #10627)
  • Add support for rtc metrics of CPU (PR #10627)
• Syslog (Input)
  • performance: do batching to reduce ring buffer pressure under load (PR #10636)
• File (Output)
  • Replace SHCreateDirectoryExA to work for recursive directories correctly (PR #10579)
  • Handle drive letter properly (PR #10579)

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