v4.2.3

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Release Notes v4.2.3

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 v4.2.3.

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

What’s new ?

Fluent Bit v4.2.3 is a maintenance release focused on stability and bug fixes across multiple plugins. It includes fixes for Splunk and Windows Event Log input handling, Kubernetes and log-to-metrics filter cleanup paths, OpenTelemetry output gRPC status handling over HTTP/2, Stackdriver OAuth2 lifecycle cleanup, and AWS-related updates and test coverage improvements.

Core

• plugin_proxy: enable event_type specification for proxy plugins (a36b225a7)
• aws: additional cleanup and adjustments (091593301)
• processor: properly handle numeric values in config map (527ca9fc9)
• filter: validate value property (not null) (a2f64b982)
• config_format: align cf_yaml dirname behavior with POSIX (54a36fbe0)
• cmake: kafka: fix OAuth Bearer detection on Windows (9191f7079)
• bin: add NULL checks and improve CONT signal handling in leaks mode (ab34c0ea3, bf74f1da2)

Libraries

• No bundled library upgrades in this release.

Plugins

• Splunk (Input)
  • plug memory issues (653f174b7)
  • extract x-forwarded-for as remote_addr (8b5e5171d)
• Tail (Input)
  • add skipped_lines counter and handle first occurrence only (7155725a1, 09e37808a)
• Windows Event Log (Input)
  • fix memory errors on exceptions and improve text rendering paths (993921332, 2be7535e8, 3bdac8c34)
• Kubernetes (Filter)
  • fix parser annotation leak and adjust cleanup ordering (34f9ea9e3, a3c457f1e)
• Log to Metrics (Filter)
  • fix init exception handling and cleanup (a1e82abe9)
• Wasm (Filter)
  • handle group metadata correctly (bafa3fcfd)
• OpenTelemetry (Output)
  • on HTTP/2, read and process gRPC status code (dcea26247)
• Stackdriver (Output)
  • clean up OAuth2 cache lifecycle (5a30d3ecc)

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