Logstash 6.1.2 Release Notesedit

  • Fixed a bug that caused empty objects when cloning Logstash Timestamp instances
  • Changed the way pipeline configurations are hashed to ensure consistence (not user facing)

Input Pluginsedit

Beats:

  • Re-order Netty pipeline to avoid NullPointerExceptions in KeepAliveHandler when Logstash is under load
  • Improve exception logging
  • Upgrade to Netty 4.1.18 with tcnative 2.0.7
  • Better handle case when remoteAddress is nil to reduce amount of warning messages in logs

Jdbc:

  • Fix thread and memory leak. See (#255)

Kafka:

  • Upgrade Kafka client to version 1.0.0

S3:

  • Add support for auto-detecting gzip files with .gzip extension, in addition to existing support for *.gz
  • Improve performance of gzip decoding by 10x by using Java’s Zlib
  • Change default sincedb path to live in {path.data}/plugins/inputs/s3 instead of $HOME. Prior Logstash installations (using $HOME default) are automatically migrated.
  • Don’t download the file if the length is 0

Tcp:

  • Fix bug where codec was not flushed when client disconnected
  • Restore INFO logging statement on startup
  • Fixed typo in @metadata tag

Filter Pluginsedit

Geoip:

  • Skip lookup operation if source field contains an empty string
  • Update of the GeoIP2 DB

Grok:

  • Fix potential race condition. see (#131)

Output Pluginsedit

Kafka:

  • bump kafka dependency to 1.0.0

Codecsedit

Line:

  • Reverted thread safety fix and instead fixed udp input codec per worker. See (#14)

Netflow:

  • Added support for Nokia BRAS
  • Added Netflow v9 IE150 IE151, IE154, IE155

Plain:

  • Code cleanup. See (#6)