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Beats version 5.0.0-rc1
editBeats version 5.0.0-rc1
editBreaking changes
editAffecting all Beats
- A dynamic mapping rule is added to the default Elasticsearch template to treat strings as keywords by default. 2688
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Make sure Beats sent always float values when they are defined as float by sending 5.00000 instead of 5. 2627
- Fix ignoring all fields from drop_fields in case the first field is unknown. 2685
- Fix dynamic configuration int/uint to float type conversion. 2698
- Fix primitive types conversion if values are read from environment variables. 2698
Metricbeat
-
Fix default configuration file on Windows to not enabled the
loadmetricset. 2632
Packetbeat
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Fix the
bpf_filtersetting. 2660
Filebeat
- Fix input buffer on encoding problem. 2416