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Logstash 5.4.2 Release Notes
editLogstash 5.4.2 Release Notes
edit- We now handle connection refused errors when installing a plugin (Issue 6529).
- Fixed an issue where environment variables specified in the Elasticsearch Output host configuration weren’t resolved correctly (Issue 6696).
- Fixed a concurrency issue in the persistent queues feature (Issue 7382).
Input Plugins
editHTTP Poller
:
- Added a top-level user/password config option that apply to all URLs by default.
- Added support for eager authorization. The Logstash client will now send credentials in its first request rather than waiting for a 401 challenge.
Output Plugins
editElasticsearch
:
- Fixed an error where a 429 response code would cause this output to crash.
- This output now waits for all inflight requests to complete before stopping.
Filter Plugins
editGeoIP
:
- Added support for commercial databases from Maxmind.
- Added ASN data support via the GeoIP2-ISP database.
User Agent
:
- Improved performance by 2.5x by moving core parser logic from Ruby to Java.
Grok
:
- Fixed an issue where having subdirectories in a pattern folder caused Logstash to crash.