Thomas Devoogdt
053eb1a984
This is a major release that introduces new features,
including one highlighted in the release notes:
"The v4.2 release introduces a powerful new Direct Routing
capability that allows inputs to specify routes directly to
outputs, bypassing the traditional routing mechanism."
But it also brings some security fixes. Not all of them are relevant,
but some piece of lecture can be found here [1]. It fixes the
following CVEs:
CVE-2025-12977
CVE-2025-12978
CVE-2025-12972
CVE-2025-12970
CVE-2025-12969
News:
- https://fluentbit.io/announcements/v4.1.0/
- https://fluentbit.io/announcements/v4.1.1/
- https://fluentbit.io/announcements/v4.2.0/
The patch 0001-plugins-kafka-fix-cmake-cross-compile-error.patch
can be dropped as it has been merged upstream [2].
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/24/fluent_bit_cves/
[2] https://github.com/fluent/fluent-bit/pull/9600
Signed-off-by: Thomas Devoogdt <thomas@devoogdt.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 7a037d0913)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Perale <thomas.perale@mind.be>