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Beats version 5.4.0

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Bugfixes

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Affecting all Beats

Improve error message when downloading the dashboards fails. 3805
Fix potential Elasticsearch output URL parsing error if protocol scheme is missing. 3671
Downgrade Elasticsearch per batch item failure log to debug level. 3953
Make @timestamp accessible from format strings. 3721

Filebeat

Allow log lines without a program name in the Syslog fileset. 3944
Don’t stop Filebeat when modules are used with the Logstash output. 3929

Metricbeat

Fixing panic on the Prometheus collector when label has a comma. 3947
Make system process metricset honor the cpu_ticks config option. 3590

Winlogbeat

Fix null terminators include in raw XML string when include_xml is enabled. 3943

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Update index mappings to support future Elasticsearch 6.X. 3778

Filebeat

Add auditd module for reading audit logs on Linux. 3750 3941
Add fileset for the Linux authorization logs. 3669

Heartbeat

Add default ports in HTTP monitor. 3924

Metricbeat

Add beta Jolokia module. 3844
Add dashboard for the MySQL module. 3716
Module configuration reloading is now beta instead of experimental. 3841
Marked http fields from the HAProxy module optional to improve compatibility with 1.5. 3788
Add support for custom HTTP headers and TLS for the Metricbeat modules. 3945

Packetbeat

Add DNS dashboard for an overview the DNS traffic. 3883
Add DNS Tunneling dashboard to highlight domains with large numbers of subdomains or high data volume. 3884

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