Beats version 5.0.0-rc1

Affecting all Beats

A dynamic mapping rule is added to the default Elasticsearch template to treat strings as keywords by default. 2688

Affecting 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 load metricset. 2632

Packetbeat

Filebeat

Affecting all Beats