Fluentd Files

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/compare/v1.17.1...v1.18.0

Enhancement

• [#4624] Add zero-downtime-restart feature for non-Windows
• [#4661] Add with-source-only feature
• fluentd command: Add --with-source-only option
• System configuration: Add with_source_only option
• [#4661] Embedded plugin: Add out_buffer plugin, which can be used for buffering and relabeling events
• [#4580] Config File Syntax: Extend Embedded Ruby Code support for Hashes and Arrays
• Example: key {"foo":"#{1 + 1}"} => key {"foo":"2"}
• Please note that this is not backward compatible, although we assume that this will never affect to actual existing configs.
• In case the behavior changes unintentionally, you can disable this feature by surrounding the entire value with single quotes.
  • key '{"foo":"#{1 + 1}"}' => key {"foo":"#{1 + 1}"}
• [#4718] transport tls: Use SSL_VERIFY_NONE by default
• [#4720] transport tls: Add ensure_fips option to ensure FIPS compliant mode
• [#4649] plugin_helper/server: Add receive_buffer_size parameter in transport section
• [#4620] filter_parser: Now able to handle multiple parsed results
• [#4655] in_http: add add_tag_prefix option
• [#4604] System configuration: add path option in log section

Bug Fix

• [#4716] command: fix NoMethodError of --daemon under Windows
• [#4605] fluentd command: fix --plugin (-p) option not to overwrite default value

Misc

• [#4619] http_server: Ready to support Async 2.0 gem
• [#4641] Minor code refactoring
• [#4638] [#4644] [#4675] [#4676] [#4677] [#4686] CI fixes

Contributors to this release (Alphabetical order)

• Athish Pranav D
• Daijiro Fukuda
• Kentaro Hayashi
• Takuro Ashie
• Watson