Filename used for file based logging now defaults to beat name. elastic/libbeat#267
Added
Introduction of backoff, backoff_factor, max_backoff, partial_line_waiting, force_close_windows_files config variables to make crawling more configurable. #146
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.
Improvements
All Godeps dependencies were updated to master on 2015-10-21 [#122]
Set default value for ignore_older config to 10 minutes. #164
Added the fields_under_root setting to optionally store the custom fields top level in the output dictionary. #188
Add more encodings by using x/text/encodings/htmlindex package to select encoding by name. #187