Vector v0.21.1 release notes

Upgrading Vector
When upgrading, we recommend stepping through minor versions as these can each contain breaking changes while Vector is pre-1.0. These breaking changes are noted in their respective upgrade guides.

This patch release contains a few fixes for regressions in 0.21.0.

Note: Please see the release notes for v0.21.0 for additional changes if upgrading from v0.20.X. In particular, the upgrade guide for breaking changes.

Vector Changelog

8 bug fixes

  • Vector no longer panics when reloading configuration that results in added components.
  • Vector no longer emits spurious TRACE level logs to internal_logs whenever vector top is run.
  • The kubernetes_logs no longer panics whenever an error is received from the Kubernetes API watch stream.
  • The elasticsearch sink now correctly works again when using AWS authentication to send data to AWS OpenSearch. Previously the security token was not included when signing the requests.
  • The nats source and sink authentication options are now configurable. Previously Vector was not correctly deserializing them.
  • AWS components now correctly pass the configured region to AWS STS when assume_role is used. This was a regression during the switch to the new Rust AWS SDK.
  • The aws_cloudwatch_logs sink now correctly retries throttled requests again. This was a regression during the switch to the new Rust AWS SDK.
  • Vector no longer panics when used with configuration options that take event paths such as encoding.only_fields.

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