Beats version 8.17.1

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Breaking changes

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  • Default Docker base image was reverted to Ubuntu 20.04 due to incompatability issues with glibc 42144
  • Fix templates and docs to use correct -- version of command line arguments. 42038 42060

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Bugfixes

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  • Fix streaming input handling of invalid or empty websocket messages. 42036
  • Fix awss3 document ID construction when using the CSV decoder. 42019
  • Improve S3 object size metric calculation to support situations where Content-Length is not available. 41755
  • Fix Netflow Template Sharing configuration handling. 42080

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  • Fix Kubernetes metadata sometimes not being present after startup 41216
  • Do not report non-existant 0 values for RSS metrics in docker/memory 41449
  • Don’t skip first bucket value in GCP metrics metricset for distribution type metrics 41822
  • [K8s Integration] Enhance HTTP authentication in case of token updates for Apiserver, Controllermanager and Scheduler metricsets 41910 42016
  • Fixed creation_date scientific notation output in the elasticsearch.index metricset. 42053

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  • Added support for retry configuration in GCS input. 11580 41862
  • Added default values in the streaming input for websocket retries and put a cap on retry wait time to be lesser than equal to the maximum defined wait time. 42012
  • Added OAuth2 support with auto token refresh for websocket streaming input. 41989 42212
  • Added infinite & blanket retry options to websockets and improved logging and retry logic. 42225

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  • Bump aerospike-client-go to version v7.7.1 and add support for basic auth in Aerospike module 41233
  • Only watch metadata for ReplicaSets in metricbeat k8s module 41289
  • Add support for region/zone for Vertex AI service in GCP module 41551
  • Added tier_preference, creation_date and version fields to the elasticsearch.index metricset. 41944
  • Add use_performance_counters to collect CPU metrics using performance counters on Windows for system/cpu and system/core 41965

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  • Removed bucket_timeout config option for GCS input and replaced bucket context with parent program context. 41107 41970

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Known Issues

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