Backward Compatibility Breaks

• Removed utf-16be-bom encoding support. Support will be added with fix for #205
• Rename force_close_windows_files to force_close_files and make it available for all platforms.
• The shipper output field is renamed to beat.name. #285
• Use of enabled as a configuration option for outputs (elasticsearch, logstash, etc.) has been removed. #264
• Use of disabled as a configuration option for tls has been removed. #264
• The -test command line flag was renamed to -configtest. #264
• Disable geoip by default. To enable it uncomment in config file. #305

Bugfixes

• Filebeat will now exit if a configuration error is detected. #198
• Fix to enable prospector to harvest existing files that are modified. #199
• Improve line reading and encoding to better keep track of file offsets based on encoding. #224
• Disable logging to stderr after configuration phase. #276
• Set the default file logging path when not set in config. #275
• Fix bug silently dropping records based on current window size. #226
• Fix direction field in published events. #300
• Fix elasticsearch structured errors breaking error handling. #309

Added

• Handling end of line under windows was improved #233
• Added beat.hostname to contain the hostname where the Beat is running on as returned by the operating system. #285
• Added timestamp for file logging. #291