Vector v0.5.0 release notes

Code name Platform Mingling

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.

Changelog

7 new features

new sink Initial statsd implementation 821 kafka sink Add support for TLS (SSL) 912 kafka sink Use PKCS#12 keys instead of JKS 934 elasticsearch sink Add support for TLS options 953 clickhouse sink Add support for basic auth 937 new source Initial docker source implementation 787 observability Add rate limited debug messages 971

2 enhancements

observability Show information about why a retry needs to happen 835 security Unify the different TLS options 972

1 bug fixes

config Default data_dir to /var/lib/vector 995

34 chore

operations Update releaser Dockerfile to include Ruby and the necessary gems operations Add git to musl builder 923 operations Fix github release notes config Make encoding non-optional 894 operations Recommend a new version based on pending commits operations Add OpenSSL to x86_64-unknown-linux-musl buil… 927 operations Fix install script path export 891 Update to rust 1.38.0 Fix fmt errors for 1.38.0 operations Ensure .rpm packages are built in nightly builds operations Docker images use binaries 940 Add fix as a valid PR type operations Clean up debian user creation and unit file 947 operations Update tokio versions 949 Use stable Rust 1.38.0 and update Linux headers for x86_6… 945 operations Tarball URL address for the Linux installation script 957 operations Ensure released s3 files are public-read 959 operations Sync and verify install.sh 958 operations Add SSE and public-read ACL to install.sh operations Verify installation script on mac 965 operations Verify that sh.vector.dev works 964 operations Verify and check Homebrew install 969 operations Use sudo when checking internet install operations Properly verify that the Vector Systemd service started 982 operations Dont auto-update when testing Homebrew install operations Fix Docker builds 985 operations Fix failing verify-install-on-internet check operations Fix release script bug Prepare v0.5.0 release Add 0.5.0 release metadata Remove unsupported bash flags operations Add sudo when installing via dpkg or rpm 999 operations Add git to musl build image 997 operations Fix centos verifier 1001

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