From 3f889f30bee92c3f2d5eaf53e56aef68f61efc4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bas van Dijk Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 15:39:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] nixos/doc: mention the ELK changes in the 18.09 release notes --- nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1809.xml | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1809.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1809.xml index 33026c5cbae..b6514f41c01 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1809.xml +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1809.xml @@ -154,6 +154,39 @@ $ nix-instantiate -E '(import <nixpkgsunstable> {}).gitFull' which indicates that the nix output hash will be used as tag. + + + The ELK stack: elasticsearch, logstash and kibana + has been upgraded from 2.* to 6.3.*. + The 2.* versions have been unsupported since last year + so they have been removed. You can still use the 5.* versions under the names + elasticsearch5, logstash5 and + kibana5. + + + The elastic beats: + filebeat, heartbeat, + metricbeat and packetbeat + have had the same treatment: they now target 6.3.* as well. + The 5.* versions are available under the names: + filebeat5, heartbeat5, + metricbeat5 and packetbeat5 + + + The ELK-6.3 stack now comes with + X-Pack by default. + Since X-Pack is licensed under the + Elastic License + the ELK packages now have an unfree license. To use them you need to specify + allowUnfree = true; in your nixpkgs configuration. + + + Fortunately there is also a free variant of the ELK stack without X-Pack. + The packages are available under the names: + elasticsearch-oss, logstash-oss and + kibana-oss. + +