Fluent Bit 2.1.8

https://fluentbit.io/announcements/v2.1.8/

What's Changed

• release: update to 2.1.8 by @github-actions in #7698
• aws: imds: set length when initializing token to dummy value by @joshuabaird in #7683
• CODEOWNERS: Google owners for out_stackdriver test by @braydonk in #7694
• upstream: add connection metrics by @leonardo-albertovich in #7713
• downstream: remove not used variable by @nokute78 in #7705
• fix typo in CMakeLists.txt by @pr0PM in #7700
• build: test: Fix an invalid constant for filter_rewrite_tag by @cosmo0920 in #7675
• build: Install OpenSSL with chocolatey only for x64 by @cosmo0920 in #7719
• in_tail: Don't append records if sl_log_event_encoder buffer is 0 by @danlenar in #7723
• calyptia_fleet: fix non existent plugin name. by @pwhelan in #7717
• lib: monkey: upgrade to v1.7.0 by @edsiper in #7718
• in_splunk: fix warnings by @nokute78 in #7706
• in_tail: fix ignore_older description. by @lecaros in #7695
• in_kafka: Fix in kafka json parsing by @tarruda in #7492
• in_http: add support for form/url_encoded payloads. by @pwhelan in #6960
• in_collectd/out_statsd: set the FLB_INPUT_NET_SERVER flag to fix their schema. by @pwhelan in #7652
• lib: monkey: upgrade to v1.7.1 (fix warnings) by @edsiper in #7731
• trace: add new command line options for enabling tracing at startup. by @pwhelan in #6726
• core: fix some compiler warnings by @edsiper in #7730
• chunk_traces: update the help for '--enable-chunk-trace'. by @pwhelan in #7734
• upstream: premature connection destruction fix by @leonardo-albertovich in #7728
• custom_calyptia: allow registering fleets by name instead of id. by @pwhelan in #7665
• core: chunk rollover improvement by @leonardo-albertovich in #7729
• core: allow up to 32MB length of line buffer in read_config by @tarruda in #7691
• in_syslog: Provide appending source address parameter by @cosmo0920 in #7651
• fluent-bit: remove cleanup code from flb_signal_exit by @nokute78 in #7735

New Contributors

• @pr0PM made their first contribution in #7700

Full Changelog: v2.1.7...v2.1.8