Logstash 8.2.0 Release Notes

Logstash 8.2.0 Release Notes

Breaking changes

  • Starting with Logstash 8.0 all supported and tested operating systems use system.d so this release removes leftover SysVinit scripts from .deb and .rpm packages #13954 #13955

Notable issues fixed

  • Improved resiliency of Central Management requests when an Elasticsearch node is down #13689 #13941
  • Ensure safe retrieval of queue stats that may not yet be populated #13942
  • Print bundled JDK’s version in launch scripts when LS_JAVA_HOME is provided #13880
  • Updated jackson-databind to 2.13.2 in ingest-converter tool #13900
  • Updated google-java-format dependency to 1.13.0 and guava to 31.0.1 in core #13700
  • Multiple documentation improvements related to: Logstash to Logstash communication #13999, docker variable injection #12198, LS-ES security configuration #14012, JDK 11 Bundling #14022, and other overall documentation restructuring #14015.

Plugins

Http Filter - 1.4.0

  • Feat: added ssl_supported_protocols option #38

Kv Filter - 4.7.0

  • Allow attaching multiple tags on failure. The tag_on_failure option now also supports an array of strings #92

Beats Input - 6.3.0

  • Added support for TLSv1.3. #447

Elasticsearch Input - 4.12.3

  • Fix: update Elasticsearch Ruby client to correctly customize user-agent header #171

Http Input - 3.5.0

  • Feat: TLSv1.3 support #146

Http_poller Input - 5.3.0

  • Feat: added ssl_supported_protocols option #133

Sqs Input - 3.3.0

  • Feature: Add additional_settings option to fine-grain configuration of AWS client #61

Kafka Integration - 10.10.0

  • Added config setting to enable zstd compression in the Kafka output #112

Http_client Mixin - 7.2.0

  • Feat: add ssl_supported_protocols option #40

Http Output - 5.5.0

  • Feat: added ssl_supported_protocols option #131
  • Fix retry indefinitely in termination process. This feature requires Logstash 8.1 #129
  • Docs: Add retry policy description #130
  • Introduce retryable unknown exceptions for "connection reset by peer" and "timeout" #127