v4.16.0

For installation instructions check out the getting started guide.

Added

• Fields auth.user_jwt and auth.user_nkey_seed added to all NATS components.
• bloblang: added ulid(encoding, random_source) function to generate Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifiers (ULIDs).
• Field skip_on added to the cached processor.
• Field nak_delay added to the nats input.
• New splunk_hec output.
• Plugin API: New NewMetadataExcludeFilterField function and accompanying FieldMetadataExcludeFilter method added.
• The pulsar input and output are now included in the main distribution of Benthos again.
• The gcp_pubsub input now adds the metadata field gcp_pubsub_delivery_attempt to messages when dead lettering is enabled.
• The aws_s3 input now adds s3_version_id metadata to versioned messages.
• All compress/decompress components (codecs, bloblang methods, processors) now support pgzip.
• Field connection.max_retries added to the websocket input.
• New sentry_capture processor.

Fixed

• The open_telemetry_collector tracer option no longer blocks service start up when the endpoints cannot be reached, and instead manages connections in the background.
• The gcp_pubsub output should see significant performance improvements due to a client library upgrade.
• The stream builder APIs should now follow logger.file config fields.
• The experimental cue format in the cli list subcommand no longer introduces infinite recursion for #Processors.
• Config unit tests no longer execute linting rules for missing env var interpolations.

The full change log can be found here.