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Beats version 5.0.0-alpha4
editBeats version 5.0.0-alpha4
editBreaking changes
editAffecting all Beats
- The topology_expire option of the Elasticsearch output was removed. 1907
Filebeat
- Stop following symlink. Symlinks are now ignored: 1686
Bugfixes
editAffecting all Beats
- Reset backoff factor on partial ACK. 1803
- Fix beats load balancer deadlock if max_retries: -1 or publish_async is enabled in filebeat. 1829
- Fix logstash output with pipelining mode enabled not reconnecting. 1876
- Empty configuration sections become merge-able with variables containing full path. 1900
- Fix error message about required fields missing not printing the missing field name. 1900
Metricbeat
- Fix the CPU values returned for each core. 1863
Packetbeat
Winlogbeat
- Fix issue with rendering forwarded event log records. 1891