New features

• Added support for the Memcache protocol both binary and text versions over both TCP and UDP variants
• Added support for DNS, only over UDP for now.
• Added support for sniffing packets that have VLAN tags.
• Added the option to specify network interfaces by a numeric index. This is especially useful on Windows where the network interfaces have long names.
• Added the ‘-devices’ CLI flag for listing the available network interfaces and their indexes.
• libpcap is now statically compiled, so it’s no longer a dependency.
• Windows packages. For now Windows binaries are distributed as a ZIP file which contain Powershell scripts for installing/uninstalling the service.
• Added support for running as a Windows service natively.
• Added the option to log the Beats own debugging messages and errors to rotating files.
• All the Beats are now statically compiled.

Fixes

• Fixed Mysql parsing error. #180
• Fixed identifying write errors in MongoDB. #183
• When save_topology was enabled, Packetbeat exited if Elasticsearch wasn’t available at start time. This is now changed and Packetbeat will retry saving the topology indefinitely until Elasticsearch is available. #187