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Beats version 5.4.2

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Beats version 5.4.2

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Bugfixes

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Affecting all Beats

  • Removed empty sections from the template files, causing indexing errors for array objects. 4488

Metricbeat

  • Fix issue affecting Windows services timing out at startup. 4491
  • Add filtering to system filesystem metricset to remove relative mountpoints like those from Linux network namespaces. 4370

Packetbeat

  • Clean configured geoip.paths before attempting to open the database. 4306
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