Logstash 8.4.0 Release Notes
editLogstash 8.4.0 Release Notes
editNew features and enhancements
editImprovements to the dead letter queue (DLQ)
editThis release brings significant improvements to help users manage their dead letter queues, including:
-
A new
clean_consumed
option on the Dead Letter Queue input plugin. It can automatically delete segments from a dead letter queue after all events in the segment have been consumed by a Logstash pipeline. - A new age retention policy, enabling the automatic removal of segments from a dead letter queue based on the age of events within those segments.
- Additional dead letter queue metrics available from the monitoring API #14324
New AWS integration plugin
editSeveral AWS plugins are now bundled in a single AWS integration plugin, enabling easier maintenance and upgrades of AWS-based plugins. They all use version 3 of the AWS Ruby SDK.
JDK17 support
editLogstash now comes bundled with JDK17, while still providing compatibility with user-supplied JDK11. The new JDK includes an update pertaining to a potential security vulnerability. Please see our security statement for details.
Logstash M1 download
editLogstash is now available for download on M1 equipped MacOS devices, and comes bundled with M1 native JDK17.
Notable issues fixed
edit-
Remove
/etc/systemd/system/logstash.service
only when file is installed by Logstash #14200 -
Fix Arcsight module compatibility with Elasticsearch
8.x
#13874 -
Ensure that timestamp values are serialized with a minimum of 3 decimal places to guarantee that millisecond precision timestamps match those from Logstash
7.x
#14299 - Fix issue with native Java plugin thread-safety and concurrency #14360
- Allow the ability to use Ruby codecs inside native Java plugins #13523
Updates to dependencies
editPlugin releases
editDead Letter Queue Input - 2.0.0
Xml Filter - 4.2.0
- Update Nokogiri dependency version #78
Aws Integration Plugin - 7.0.0
-
This new integration plugin incorporates and replaces the use of the these individual plugins: individual plugins:
- logstash-input-s3
- logstash-input-sqs
- logstash-mixin-aws
- logstash-output-cloudwatch
- logstash-output-s3
- logstash-output-sns
- logstash-output-sqs
-
This replaces the use of the single combined aws
2.x
sdk gem, with the modularized aws3.x
gems.