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Breaking changes

Affecting all Beats

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

Filebeat

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.

Bugfixes

Affecting all Beats

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. elastic/filebeat#226
Fix direction field in published events. #300
Fix elasticsearch structured errors breaking error handling. #309

Packetbeat

Packetbeat will now exit if a configuration error is detected. #357
Fixed an issue handling DNS requests containing no questions. #369

Topbeat

Fix leak of Windows handles. #98
Fix memory leak of process information. #104

Filebeat

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
Set input_type by default to "log"

Added

Affecting all Beats

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

Filebeat

Handling end of line under windows was improved #233

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