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| author | Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com> | 2018-08-03 15:39:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io> | 2018-08-03 15:06:47 +0100 |
| commit | 3f889f30bee92c3f2d5eaf53e56aef68f61efc4a (patch) | |
| tree | 9b3f60b4d4079ffff5974afea06d02c710d82061 /nixos | |
| parent | c9b41aa81f86e15169d948535002a4d7a10a8f72 (diff) | |
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nixos/doc: mention the ELK changes in the 18.09 release notes
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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. </para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + The ELK stack: <varname>elasticsearch</varname>, <varname>logstash</varname> and <varname>kibana</varname> + has been upgraded from 2.* to 6.3.*. + The 2.* versions have been <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/support/eol">unsupported since last year</link> + so they have been removed. You can still use the 5.* versions under the names + <varname>elasticsearch5</varname>, <varname>logstash5</varname> and + <varname>kibana5</varname>. + </para> + <para> + The elastic beats: + <varname>filebeat</varname>, <varname>heartbeat</varname>, + <varname>metricbeat</varname> and <varname>packetbeat</varname> + have had the same treatment: they now target 6.3.* as well. + The 5.* versions are available under the names: + <varname>filebeat5</varname>, <varname>heartbeat5</varname>, + <varname>metricbeat5</varname> and <varname>packetbeat5</varname> + </para> + <para> + The ELK-6.3 stack now comes with + <link xlink:href="https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open">X-Pack by default</link>. + Since X-Pack is licensed under the + <link xlink:href="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/licenses/ELASTIC-LICENSE.txt">Elastic License</link> + the ELK packages now have an unfree license. To use them you need to specify + <literal>allowUnfree = true;</literal> in your nixpkgs configuration. + </para> + <para> + Fortunately there is also a free variant of the ELK stack without X-Pack. + The packages are available under the names: + <varname>elasticsearch-oss</varname>, <varname>logstash-oss</varname> and + <varname>kibana-oss</varname>. + </para> + </listitem> </itemizedlist> </section> |