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fluent-package v5.0.6 has been released

Hi users!

We have released fluent-package v5.0.6. fluent-package is a stable distribution package of Fluentd. (successor of td-agent v4)

This is a maintenance release of v5.0.x LTS series. Bundled Fluentd was updated to 1.16.7.

We recommend upgrading to fluent-package v5.0.6!

Changes from fluent-package v5.0.5

In this release, known Windows issues were fixed.

• Update bundled Fluentd to v1.16.7
• Update bundled gems overall
• msi: Fixed to keep some registry values with update

msi: Fixed to keep some registry values with update

In the previous versions, there had been a known issue that fluent-package could not keep some registry values when upgrading.

Thus, if you modify Fluentd service (fluentdwinsvc) related registry, you need to restore your configuration after upgrading.

Since v5.0.6, fluent-package was fixed to keep some registry values during upgrading package.

Here is the target registry which will be kept during upgrading fluent-package:

• Start
• DelayedAutostart
• fluentdopt (logging path might be modified by users)

In most cases, fluent-package user might want to keep fluentdopt because it stores additional command line option parameters.

In this release, bundled Fluentd v1.16.7 also contains the fixes for Windows.

• Windows: Fix NoMethodError of --daemon option
• Windows: Fixed the issues which are related to start/stop Fluentd service

See Fluentd v1.16.7 has been released blog article in details.

Download

Please see the download page.

About next LTS schedule

We plan to ship the next LTS version of fluent-package v5.0.7 on June, 2025. The content of updates are still in T.B.D.

End of support for td-agent v4, let's migrate to fluent-package

As it was already announced Drop schedule announcement about EOL of Treasure Agent (td-agent) 4, td-agent v4 reached EOL in Dec, 2023.

After reached EOL, td-agent v4.5.3 on Windows was released because there was a crash bug during startup on Windows. It was backported fix from fluent-package v5 as it is critical in some case. Even though this was a exceptional maintenance release, but there is no change to the fact that we already stopped maintaining td-agent v4.

We strongly recommend migrating from td-agent v4 to fluent-package v5 (LTS). See Upgrade to fluent-package v5