Release Notes
Backward Compatibility Breaks
- Rename elasticsearch index pattern to [packetbeat-]YYYY.MM.DD in Kibana
- Rename ‘strip_authorization’ config file option from the http module to 'redact_authorization'
- Set ‘save_topology’ config file option to false by default
Bug Fixes
- Support for lower-case header names when redacting http authorization headers
- Redact proxy-authorization if redact-authorization is enabled
- Fix some multithreading issues #203
- Fix negative response time #216
- Fix Memcache TCP connection being null after dropping stream data. #299
Added
- All external dependencies were updated to the latest version. Update to Golang 1.5.1 #162
- Allow setting the Elasticsearch host in different ways, by IP:PORT or URL #135
- Add logstash output plugin #151
- Add tls configuration support to elasticsearch and logstash outputers #139
- Add direction field to publisher output to indicate inbound/outbound transactions #150 #317
- Made the -devices option more user friendly in case sudo is not used. Issue #296
- Publish expired DNS transactions #301
- Make transaction timeouts configurable #300
- Update
./load.sh script from the beats-dashboards repository to configure automatically the index pattern in Kibana
- Improve Packetbeat documentation