Beats version 1.0.0-rc1

Affecting all Beats

Packetbeat

Topbeat

Rename timestamp field with @timestamp for a better integration with Logstash. #80

Filebeat

Rename the timestamp field with @timestamp #168
Rename tail_on_rotate prospector config to tail_files
Removal of line field in event. Line number was not correct and does not add value. #217

Affecting all Beats

Use stderr for console log output. #219
Handle empty event array in publisher. #207
Respect * debug selector in IsDebug. #226 (elastic/packetbeat#339)
Limit number of workers for Elasticsearch output. elastic/packetbeat#226
On Windows, remove service related error message when running in the console. #242
Fix waitRetry no configured in single output mode configuration. elastic/filebeat#144
Use http as the default scheme in the elasticsearch hosts #253
Respect max bulk size if bulk publisher (collector) is disabled or sync flag is set.
Always evaluate status code from Elasticsearch responses when indexing events. #192
Use bulk_max_size configuration option instead of bulk_size. #256
Fix max_retries=0 (no retries) configuration option. #266
Filename used for file based logging now defaults to beat name. #267

Packetbeat

Topbeat

Filebeat

Omit fields from event JSON when null. #126
Make offset and line value of type long in elasticsearch template to prevent overflow. #140
Fix locking files for writing behaviour. #156
Introduce document_type config option per prospector to define document type for event stored in elasticsearch. #133
Add input_type field to published events reporting the prospector type being used. #133
Fix high CPU usage when not connected to Elasticsearch or Logstash. #144
Fix issue that files were not crawled anymore when encoding was set to something other then plain. #182

Affecting all Beats

Add Console output plugin. #218
Add timestamp to log messages #245
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
Add logging messages for bulk publishing in case of error #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.

Filebeat

Introduction of backoff, backoff_factor, max_backoff, partial_line_waiting, force_close_windows_files config variables to make crawling more configurable.
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.