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Beats version 8.16.5

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Beats version 8.16.5

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Known Issues

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Filebeat

  • The Filestream input does not enforce the restrictions documented for the clean_inactive option, thus allowing configurations that can lead to data re-ingestion issues.
  • When clean_inactive: 0, Filestream cleans the state of all files on start up, effectively re-ingesting all files on restart. Set clean_inactive: -1 to disable this behavior.

Bugfixes

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Filebeat

  • [Journald] Fixes handling of journalctl restart. A known symptom was broken multiline messages when there was a restart of journalctl while aggregating the lines. 41331 42595

Winlogbeat

  • Sync missing changes in modules pipelines. 42619

Added

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Affecting all Beats

  • Update Go version to 1.22.12. 42681

Filebeat

  • Introduce ignore older and start timestamp filters for AWS S3 input. 41804

Metricbeat

  • Log every 401 response from Kubernetes API Server. 42714
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