Logstash 7.0.0-rc1 Release Notes

BUGFIX: Correctly count total queued items across multiple pipelines #10564
BUGFIX: Fix issue setting enable_metric ⇒ false #10538
BUGFIX: Prevent concurrent convergence of pipeline actions #10537
Monitoring: Change internal document type to push "_doc" instead of "doc" #10533
BUGFIX: Allow explicitly-specified Java codecs #10520
Central management typeless API #10421
Improve docs about using Filebeat modules with Logstash #10438
Bump JRuby to 9.2.6.0 #10425
BUGFIX: Remove exclusive lock for Ruby pipeline initialization #10462

logstash-filter-dns
- Fixed issue where unqualified domains would fail to resolve when running this plugin with Logstash 5.x #48
- Fixed crash that could occur when encountering certain classes of invalid inputs #49
logstash-filter-kv
- Added a timeout enforcer which prevents inputs that are pathological against the generated parser from blocking the pipeline. By default, timeout is a generous 30s, but can be configured or disabled entirely with the new timeout_millis and tag_on_timeout directives #79
- Made error-handling configurable with tag_on_failure directive.
logstash-filter-xml
- Fixed creation of empty arrays when xpath failed #59
logstash-input-file
- Fixed problem in Windows where some paths would fail to return an identifier ("inode"). Make path into a C style String before encoding to UTF-16LE. #232
logstash-input-tcp
- Fixed race condition where data would be accepted before queue was configured
- Support multiple certificates per file #140
logstash-output-kafka
- Fixed issue with unnecessary sleep after retries exhausted #216
logstash-output-s3
- Add support for setting mutipart upload threshold #202