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Breaking changes

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Filebeat

Rename input_type field to prospector.type 4294
The @metadata.type field, added by the Logstash output, is now hardcoded to doc and will be removed in future versions. 4331.

Bugfixes

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Affecting all Beats

Fix importing the dashboards when the limit for max open files is too low. 4244
Fix configuration documentation for kubernetes processor 4313
Fix misspelling in add_locale configuration option for abbreviation.

Filebeat

Fix race condition on harvester stopping with reloading enabled. 3779
Fix recursive glob config parsing and resolution across restarts. 4269
Allow string characters in user agent patch version (NGINX and Apache) 4415
Fix grok pattern in filebeat module system/auth without hostname. 4224

Metricbeat

Set correct format for percent fields in memory module. 4619
Fix a debug statement that said a module wrapper had stopped when it hadn’t. 4264
Use MemAvailable value from /proc/meminfo on Linux 3.14. 4316
Fix panic when events were dropped by filters. 4327
Add filtering to system filesystem metricset to remove relative mountpoints like those from Linux network namespaces. 4370
Remove unnecessary print statement in schema apis. 4355
Fix type of field haproxy.stat.check.health.last. 4407

Packetbeat - Enable memcache filtering only if a port is specified in the config file. 4335

Added

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Upgraded to Golang 1.8.3. 4401
Added the possibility to set Elasticsearch mapping template settings from the Beat configuration file. 4284 4317
Add a variable to the SysV init scripts to make it easier to change the user. 4340
Add the option to write the generated Elasticsearch mapping template into a file. 4323
Add instance_name in GCE add_cloud_metadata processor. 4414
Add add_docker_metadata processor. 4352
Add logging.files permissions option. 4295

Filebeat - Added ability to sort harvested files. 4374 - Add experimental Redis slow log prospector type. 4180

Metricbeat

Add macOS implementation of the system diskio metricset. 4144
Add process_summary metricset that records high level metrics about processes. 4231
Add kube-state-metrics based metrics to kubernetes module 4253
Add debug logging to Jolokia JMX metricset. 4341
Add events metricset for kubernetes metricbeat module 4315
Change Metricbeat default configuration file to be better optimized for most users. 4329
Add experimental RabbitMQ module. 4394
Add Kibana dashboard for the Kubernetes modules. 4138

Packetbeat

Winlogbeat

Deprecated

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Affecting all Beats

The @metadata.type field, added by the Logstash output, is deprecated, hardcoded to doc and will be removed in future versions. 4331.

Filebeat

Deprecate input_type prospector config. Use type config option instead. 4294

Known Issue

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If the Elasticsearch output is not enabled, but setup.template options are present (like it’s the case in the default Metricbeat configuration), the Beat stops with an error: "Template loading requested but the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled". To avoid this error, disable the template loading explicitly setup.template.enabled: false.

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