This changelog is intended for community Beat developers. It covers the major
breaking changes to the internal APIs in the official Beats and changes related
to developing a Beat like code generators or fields.yml
. Only the major
changes will be covered in this changelog that are expected to affect community
developers. Each breaking change added here should have an explanation on how
other Beats should be migrated.
Note: This changelog documents the current changes which are not yet present in an actual release.
The list below covers the major changes between 7.0.0-beta1 and master only.
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Metricset generator generates beta modules by default now. 10657
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The
beat.Event
accessor methods now support@metadata
keys. 10761 -
Assertion for documented fields in tests fails if any of the fields in the tested event is documented as an alias. 10921
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Support for Logger in the Metricset base instance. 11106
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Introduce processing.Support to instance.Setting. This allows Beats to fully modify the event processing. 10801
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Filebeat modules can now use ingest pipelines in YAML format. 11209
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Added support for using PYTHON_EXE to control what Python interpreter is used by
make
andmage
. Example:export PYTHON_EXE=python2.7
. 11212