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Logstash 6.2.4 Release Notes

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Logstash 6.2.4 Release Notes

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  • Fixed an issue where events passing through the persistent queue had the contents of string type fields corrupted for values containing non-ASCII characters. The solution involved serializing the RubyString as Java String UTF-16 encoded #9167
  • Fixed serialization bug when a RubyString that comes out of a matching, substring or similar operation may not have offset 0 pointing at the underlying BytesList. Solved by serializing the correct part of the BytesList #9308
  • Improved performance of Event#cancel, where each operation would unnecessarily generate a new object. In configurations that use plugins like the drop filter throughput may increase up to 5x #9284
  • Fixed an issue with type handling in metadata fields. Before this a plugin could trigger a Java exception when placing data into an event’s metadata #9299
  • Fixed a race condition in shutdown of pipelines where not all workers would consume a single SHUTDOWN signal #9285
  • Multiple documentation improvements relating to configuration files, JVM options, default plugin codecs, Logstash-to-Logstash communication and Keystore.

Plugins

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Netflow Codec

  • Workaround for breaking change in Netflow-Input-UDP > 3.2.0, see issue #122
  • Renamed some unknown VMware VDS fields

Aggregate Filter

  • new feature: add timeout_timestamp_field option. When set, this option computes timeout based on event timestamp field (and not system time). It’s particularly useful when processing old logs.
  • new feature: add inactivity_timeout option. Events for a given task_id will be aggregated for as long as they keep arriving within the defined inactivity_timeout option - the inactivity timeout is reset each time a new event happens. On the contrary, timeout is never reset and happens after timeout seconds since aggregation map creation.

Dns Filter

  • Logging improvement to include DNS resolution failure reason #36
  • Fix bug where forward lookups would not cache timeout errors

Jdbc_streaming Filter

  • Load the driver with the system class loader. Fixes issue loading some JDBC drivers in Logstash 6.2+ #263

Kv Filter

  • Correctly handle empty values between value separator and field separator #58

Ruby Filter

  • Fix return of multiple events when using file based scripts #41

Translate Filter

  • Add refresh_behaviour to either merge or replace during a refresh #57

Beats Input

  • Ensure that the keep-alive is sent for ALL pending batches when the pipeline is blocked, not only the batches attempting to write to the queue. #310

Exec Input

  • Add metadata data to the event wrt execution duration and exit status
  • Add schedule option to schedule the command to run, using a cron expression

Http Input

  • Make sure default codec is also cloned for thread safety. #80
  • Always flush codec after each request and codec decoding. #81

Jdbc Input

  • Clarify use of use_column_value. Make last_run_metadata_path reference in record_last_run entry clickable. #273
  • Load the driver with the system class loader. Fixes issue loading some JDBC drivers in Logstash 6.2+ #263
  • Fix regression with 4.3.5 that can result in NULL :sql_last_value depending on timestamp format #274

Redis Input

  • Add support for SSL #61
  • Add support for Redis unix sockets #64

S3 Input

  • Improve error handling when listing/downloading from S3 #144
  • Add documentation for endpoint, role_arn and role_session_name #142
  • Add support for additional_settings option #141

Sqs Input

  • Add documentation for endpoint, role_arn and role_session_name #46
  • Fix sample IAM policy to match to match the documentation #32

Tcp Input

  • Restore SSLSUBJECT field when ssl_verify is enabled. #115
  • Update Netty/tc-native versions to match those in beats input #113

Udp Input

  • Add metrics support for events, operations, connections and errors produced during execution. #34
  • Fix support for IPv6 #31

Aws Mixin

  • Drop strict value validation for region option #36
  • Add endpoint option to customize the endpoint uri #32
  • Allow user to provide a role to assume #27
  • Update aws-sdk dependency to ~> 2

Elasticsearch Output

  • Set number_of_shards to 1 and document_type to _doc for es 7.x clusters #741 #747
  • Fix usage of upsert and script when update action is interpolated #239
  • Add metrics to track bulk level and document level responses #585

File Output

  • Add feature write_behavior to the documentation #58

S3 Output

  • Add documentation for endpoint, role_arn and role_session_name #174
  • Add option for additional settings #173
  • Add more S3 bucket ACLs #158
  • Handle file not found exception on S3 upload #144
  • Document prefix interpolation #154

Sqs Output

  • Add documentation for endpoint, role_arn and role_session_name #29
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