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Beats version 6.8.1
editBeats version 6.8.1
editBugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Fixed a memory leak when using the add_process_metadata processor under Windows. 12100
Auditbeat
- Package dataset: Log error when Homebrew is not installed. 11667
- Process dataset: Fixed a memory leak under Windows. 12100
- Login dataset: Fix re-read of utmp files. 12028
- Package dataset: Fixed a crash inside librpm after Auditbeat has been running for a while. 12147 12168
- Fix direction of incoming IPv6 sockets. 12248
- Package dataset: Auto-detect package directories. 12289
- System module: Start system module without host ID. 12373
- Host dataset: Fix reboot detection logic. 12591
Filebeat
- Fix goroutine leak happening when harvesters are dynamically stopped. 11263
- Fix initialization of the TCP input logger. 11605
- Fix goroutine leak caused on initialization failures of log input. 12125
- Fix memory leak in Filebeat pipeline acker. 12063
- Fix goroutine leak on non-explicit finalization of log input. 12164
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When TLS is configured for the TCP input and a
certificate_authorities
is configured we now default torequired
for theclient_authentication
. 12584
Metricbeat
- Avoid generating hints-based configuration with empty hosts when no exposed port is suitable for the hosts hint. 8264 12086
- Fix direction of incoming IPv6 sockets. 12248
- Validate that kibana/status metricset cannot be used when xpack is enabled. 12264
- In the kibana/stats metricset, only log error (don’t also index it) if xpack is enabled. 12353
-
The
elasticsearch/index_summary
metricset gracefully handles an empty Elasticsearch cluster whenxpack.enabled: true
is set. 12489 12487 -
When TLS is configured for the http metricset and a
certificate_authorities
is configured we now default torequired
for theclient_authentication
. 12584
Packetbeat