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Beats version 6.0.0-rc2

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Breaking changes

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Packetbeat

Remove not-working runoptions.uid and runoptions.gid options in Packetbeat. 5261

Bugfixes

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Affecting all Beats

Fix data race accessing watched containers. 5147
Do not require template if index change and template disabled 5319
Fix missing ACK in redis output. 5404

Filebeat

Fix default paths for redis 4.0.1 logs on macOS 5173
Fix Filebeat not starting if command line and modules configs are used together. 5376
Fix double @timestamp field when JSON decoding was used. 5436

Metricbeat

Use beat.name instead of beat.hostname in the Host Overview dashboard. 5340
Fix the loading of 5.x dashboards. 5277

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Metricbeat

Auto-select a hostname (based on the host on which the Beat is running) in the Host Overview dashboard. 5340

Deprecated

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Filebeat

The filebeat.config_dir option is deprecated. Use filebeat.config.prospector options instead. 5321

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