Backward Compatibility Breaks

• Rename timestamp field with @timestamp for a better integration with Logstash. #80

Bugfixes

• Don't wait for one period until shutdown #75
• Use stderr for console log output. elastic/libbeat#219
• Handle empty event array in publisher. elastic/libbeat#207
• Respect * debug selector in IsDebug. elastic/libbeat#226
• On Windows, remove service related error message when running in the console. elastic/libbeat#242
• Use http as the default scheme in the elasticsearch hosts elastic/libbeat#253
• Respect max bulk size if bulk publisher (collector) is disabled or sync flag is set. elastic/libbeat#261
• Always evaluate status code from Elasticsearch responses when indexing events. elastic/libbeat#192
• Use bulk_max_size configuration option instead of bulk_size. elastic/libbeat#256
• Fix max_retries=0 (no retries) configuration option. elastic/libbeat#266
• Filename used for file based logging now defaults to beat name. elastic/libbeat#267

Added

• Add Console output plugin. elastic/libbeat#218
• Add timestamp to log messages elastic/libbeat#245
• Send @metadata.beat to Logstash instead of @metadata.index to prevent possible name clashes and give user full control over index name used for Elasticsearch elastic/libbeat#231
• Add logging messages for bulk publishing in case of error elastic/libbeat#229
• Add option to configure number of parallel workers publishing to Elasticsearch or Logstash.
• Set default bulk size for Elasticsearch output to 50.
• Set default http timeout for Elasticsearch to 90s.
• Improve publish retry if sync flag is set by retrying only up to max bulk size events instead of all events to be published.