Beats version 6.8.1

Affecting all Beats

Fixed a memory leak when using the add_process_metadata processor under Windows. 12100

Auditbeat

Package dataset: Log error when Homebrew is not installed. 11667
Process dataset: Fixed a memory leak under Windows. 12100
Login dataset: Fix re-read of utmp files. 12028
Package dataset: Fixed a crash inside librpm after Auditbeat has been running for a while. 12147 12168
Fix direction of incoming IPv6 sockets. 12248
Package dataset: Auto-detect package directories. 12289
System module: Start system module without host ID. 12373
Host dataset: Fix reboot detection logic. 12591

Filebeat

Fix goroutine leak happening when harvesters are dynamically stopped. 11263
Fix initialization of the TCP input logger. 11605
Fix goroutine leak caused on initialization failures of log input. 12125
Fix memory leak in Filebeat pipeline acker. 12063
Fix goroutine leak on non-explicit finalization of log input. 12164
When TLS is configured for the TCP input and a certificate_authorities is configured we now default to required for the client_authentication. 12584

Metricbeat

Avoid generating hints-based configuration with empty hosts when no exposed port is suitable for the hosts hint. 8264 12086
Fix direction of incoming IPv6 sockets. 12248
Validate that kibana/status metricset cannot be used when xpack is enabled. 12264
In the kibana/stats metricset, only log error (don’t also index it) if xpack is enabled. 12353
The elasticsearch/index_summary metricset gracefully handles an empty Elasticsearch cluster when xpack.enabled: true is set. 12489 12487
When TLS is configured for the http metricset and a certificate_authorities is configured we now default to required for the client_authentication. 12584

Packetbeat

Auditbeat

Metricbeat

Add validation for elasticsearch and kibana modules' metricsets when xpack.enabled is set to true. 12386