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:issue: https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/
:pull: https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/

[[release-notes-8.18.8]]
=== Beats version 8.18.8
https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.18.7\...v8.18.8[View commits]

==== Breaking changes

*Filebeat*

- Journald input now converts byte-encoded messages to string. {issue}40479[40479] {pull}46415[46415]

==== Bugfixes

*Affecting all Beats*

- Fixed a panic in the Kafka output that could occur when shutting down while final events were being published. {issue}46109[46109] {pull}46446[46446]

*Filebeat*

- The UDP input now fails if it cannot bind to the configured port and its status is set to failed when running under Elastic Agent. {issue}37216[37216] {pull}46302[46302]
- The Unix input now fails on errors listening to the socket and its status is set to failed when running under Elastic Agent. {pull}46302[46302]
- Fix metrics from TCP & UDP inputs when the port number is > 32767 {pull}46486[46486]
- [Journald input] Fix reading all files in a folder and watching for new ones. {issue}46657[46657] {pull}46682[46682]
- [azure-eventhub] Fix handling of connection strings with entity path. {issue}43715[43715] {pull}43716[43716]

*Metricbeat*

- Do not log an error if metadata enrichment is disabled for K8's module {pull}46536
- Fix Azure Monitor wildcard metrics names timegrain issue by using the first, smallest timegrain; fix nil pointer issue {pull}46145[46145]

*Winlogbeat*

- Fix EventLog reset logic to not close renderers. {pull}46376[46376] {issue}45750{45750}

==== Added

*Metricbeat*

- Add default timegrain to Azure Storage Account metricset. {pull}46786[46786]

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We need a double space between version sections.

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[[release-notes-8.18.7]]
=== Beats version 8.18.7
https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.18.6\...v8.18.7[View commits]
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- Introduce input/netmetrics and refactor netflow input metrics {pull}38055[38055]
- Redis: Added replication role as a field to submitted slowlogs
- Change log.file.path field in awscloudwatch input to nested object. {pull}41099[41099]
- Journald input now converts byte-encoded messages to string. {issue}40479[40479] {pull}46415[46415]

*Heartbeat*

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- Lower logging level to debug when attempting to configure beats with unknown fields from autodiscovered events/environments {pull}[37816][37816]
- Set timeout of 1 minute for FQDN requests {pull}37756[37756]
- 'add_cloud_metadata' processor - improve AWS provider HTTP client overriding to support custom certificate bundle handling {pull}44189[44189]
- Fixed a panic in the Kafka output that could occur when shutting down while final events were being published. {issue}46109[46109] {pull}46446[46446]

*Auditbeat*

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- Journald input now works on Docker containers (except Wolfi) {issue}41278[41278] {issue}44040[44040] {pull}44056[44056]
- Fix endpoint path typo in Okta entity analytics provider. {pull}44147[44147]
- Fixed a websocket panic scenario which would occur after exhausting max retries. {pull}44342[44342]
- The UDP input now fails if it cannot bind to the configured port and its status is set to failed when running under Elastic Agent. {issue}37216[37216] {pull}46302[46302]
- The Unix input now fails on errors listening to the socket and its status is set to failed when running under Elastic Agent. {pull}46302[46302]

- Fix metrics from TCP & UDP inputs when the port number is > 32767 {pull}46486[46486]
- [Journald input] Fix reading all files in a folder and watching for new ones. {issue}46657[46657] {pull}46682[46682]
- [azure-eventhub] Fix handling of connection strings with entity path. {issue}43715[43715] {pull}43716[43716]

*Heartbeat*

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- Remove `hostname` field from zookeeper's `mntr` data stream. {pull}41887[41887]
- Only fetch cluster-level index stats summary {issue}36019[36019] {pull}42901[42901]
- Changed `tier_preference`, `creation_date` and `version` fields to be omitted from the resulting documents when not pulled from source indices {pull}43637[43637]
- Do not log an error if metadata enrichment is disabled for K8's module {pull}46536
- Fix Azure Monitor wildcard metrics names timegrain issue by using the first, smallest timegrain; fix nil pointer issue {pull}46145[46145]

*Osquerybeat*

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*Winlogbeat*

- Fix EventLog reset logic to not close renderers. {pull}46376[46376] {issue}45750{45750}

*Elastic Logging Plugin*

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- Only watch metadata for ReplicaSets in metricbeat k8s module {pull}41289[41289]
- Added checks for the Resty response object in all Meraki module API calls to ensure proper handling of nil responses. {pull}44193[44193]
- Add `enable_batch_api` option in azure monitor to allow metrics collection of multiple resources using azure batch Api {pull}41790[41790]
- Add latency config option to Azure Monitor module. {pull}44366[44366]
- Increase default polling period for MongoDB module from 10s to 60s {pull}44781[44781]
- Upgrade github.com/microsoft/go-mssqldb from v1.7.2 to v1.8.2 {pull}44990[44990]
- Add SSL support for sql module: drivers mysql, postgres, and mssql. {pull}44748[44748]
- Add support for Kafka 4.0 in the Kafka module. {pull}44723[44723]
- Add NTP response validation for system/ntp module. {pull}46184[46184]
- Add vertexai_logs metricset to GCP for prompt response collection from VertexAI service. {pull}46383[46383]
- Add default timegrain to Azure Storage Account metricset. {pull}46786[46786]

*Metricbeat*

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<<breaking-changes>> for more detail about changes that affect
upgrade.

* <<release-notes-8.18.8>>
* <<release-notes-8.18.7>>
* <<release-notes-8.18.6>>
* <<release-notes-8.18.5>>
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