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Beats version 6.0.0-beta2

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Breaking changes

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Affecting all Beats

The log directory (path.log) for Windows services is now set to C:\ProgramData\[beatname]\logs. 4764
The _all field is disabled in Elasticsearch 6.0. This means that searching by individual words only work on text fields. 4901
Fail if removed setting output.X.flush_interval is explicitly configured.
Rename the /usr/bin/beatname.sh script (e.g. metricbeat.sh) to /usr/bin/beatname. 4933
Beat does not start if elasticsearch index pattern was modified but not the template name and pattern. 4769
Fail if removed setting output.X.flush_interval is explicitly configured. 4880

Bugfixes

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Register kubernetes field_format matcher and remove logger in Encode API 4888
Fix go plugins not loaded when beat starts 4799
Add support for initContainers in add_kubernetes_metadata processor. 4825
Eliminate deprecated default mapping in 6.x 4864
Fix pod name indexer to use both namespace, pod name to frame index key 4775

Filebeat

Fix issue where the fileset.module could have the wrong value. 4761

Heartbeat

Fix monitor.name being empty by default. 4852
Fix wrong event timestamps. 4851

Metricbeat

Added missing mongodb configuration file to the modules.d folder. 4870
Fix wrong MySQL CRUD queries timelion visualization 4857
Add new metrics to CPU metricset 4969

Packetbeat

Update flow timestamp on each packet being received. 4895

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Add setting to enable/disable the slow start in logstash output. 4972
Update init scripts to use the test config subcommand instead of the deprecated -configtest flag. 4600
Get by default the credentials for connecting to Kibana from the Elasticsearch output configuration. 4867
Added cloud.id and cloud.auth settings, for simplifying using Beats with the Elastic Cloud. 4959
Add lz4 compression support to kafka output. 4977
Add newer kafka versions to kafka output. 4977
Configure the index name when loading the dashboards and the index pattern. 4949

Metricbeat

Add filesystem.ignore_types to system module for ignoring filesystem types. 4685
Add support to exclude labels from kubernetes pod metadata. 4757

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