docs: Prepare Changelog for 8.12.0 (elastic#37655) (elastic#37661)

* docs: Close changelog for 8.12.0 * Update CHANGELOG.asciidoc * Update CHANGELOG.asciidoc * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: David Kilfoyle <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Pierre HILBERT <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: David Kilfoyle <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit 9ecb427) Co-authored-by: Elastic Machine <[email protected]>
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 :issue: https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/
 :pull: https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/
 
+[[release-notes-8.12.0]]
+=== Beats version 8.12.0
+https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.11.4\...v8.12.0[View commits]
+
+==== Breaking changes
+
+*Heartbeat*
+- Decrease the ES default timeout to 10 for the load monitor state requests.
+
+*Osquerybeat*
+
+- Upgrade to osquery 5.10.2. {pull}37115[37115]
+
+==== Bugfixes
+
+*Filebeat*
+
+- Add validation to the `http_endpoint` config for empty URL. {pull}36816[36816] {issue}36772[36772]
+- Fix merging of array fields (processors, paths, parsers) in configurations generated from hints and default config. {issue}36838[36838] {pull}36857[36857]
+
+==== Added
+
+*Affecting all Beats*
+
+- Allow `queue` configuration settings to be set under the output. {issue}35615[35615] {pull}36788[36788]
+- Raise up logging level to warning when attempting to configure {beats} with unknown fields from autodiscovered events/environments.
+- Elasticsearch output now supports `idle_connection_timeout`. {issue}35616[35615] {pull}36843[36843]
+- Upgrade to Go 1.20.12. {pull}37350[37350]
+- The Elasticsearch output can now configure performance presets with the `preset` configuration field. {pull}37259[37259]
+- Upgrade `elastic-agent-system-metrics` to v0.9.1. See https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics/releases/tag/v0.9.1. {pull}37353[37353]
+- Upgrade to elastic-agent-libs v0.7.3 and golang.org/x/crypto v0.17.0. {pull}37544[37544]
+
+*Auditbeat*
+
+- Add `ignore_errors` option to audit module. {issue}15768[15768] {pull}36851[36851]
+- Fix copy arguments for strict aligned architectures. {pull}36976[36976]
+
+*Filebeat*
+
+- Allow http_endpoint input to receive PUT and PATCH requests. {pull}36734[36734]
+- Avoid unwanted publication of Azure entity records. {pull}36753[36753]
+- Avoid unwanted publication of Okta entity records. {pull}36770[36770]
+- Add support for Digest Authentication to CEL input. {issue}35514[35514] {pull}36932[36932]
+- Use filestream input with `file_identity.fingerprint` as default for hints autodiscover. {issue}35984[35984] {pull}36950[36950]
+- Add network processor in addition to interface based direction resolution. {pull}37023[37023]
+- Make CEL input log current transaction ID when request tracing is turned on. {pull}37065[37065]
+- Make Azure Blob Storage input GA and update docs accordingly. {pull}37128[37128]
+- Add request trace logging to http_endpoint input. {issue}36951[36951] {pull}36957[36957]
+- Make GCS input GA and update docs accordingly. {pull}37127[37127]
+- Suppress and log max HTTP request retry errors in CEL input. {pull}37160[37160]
+- Prevent CEL input from re-entering the eval loop when an evaluation failed. {pull}37161[37161]
+- Update CEL extensions library to v1.7.0. {pull}37172[37172]
+
+*Auditbeat*
+
+- Upgrade go-libaudit to v2.4.0. {issue}36776[36776] {pull}36964[36964]
+- Add a `/inputs/` route to the HTTP monitoring endpoint that exposes metrics for each dataset instance. {pull}36971[36971]
+
+*Heartbeat*
+- Capture and log the individual connection metrics for all the lightweight monitors.
+
+*Metricbeat*
+
+- Add metrics grouping by dimensions and time to Azure app insights. {pull}36634[36634]
+- Align on the algorithm used to transform Prometheus histograms into Elasticsearch histograms. {pull}36647[36647]
+- Enhance GCP billing with detailed tables identification, additional fields, and optimized data handling. {pull}36902[36902]
+- Add a `/inputs/` route to the HTTP monitoring endpoint that exposes metrics for each metricset instance. {pull}36971[36971]
+- Add Linux IO metrics to system/process. {pull}37213[37213]
+- Add new memory/cgroup metrics to Kibana module. {pull}37232[37232]
+
+*Packetbeat*
+
+- Add metrics for TCP flags. {issue}36992[36992] {pull}36975[36975]
+
+*Winlogbeat*
+
+- Make ingest pipeline routing robust to letter case of channel names for forwarded events. {issue}36670[36670] {pull}36899[36899]
+- Document minimum permissions required for local user account. {issue}15773[15773] {pull}37176[37176]
+
+==== Deprecated
+
+*Filebeat*
+
+- Deprecate rsa2elk Filebeat modules. {issue}36125[36125] {pull}36887[36887]
+
+
 [[release-notes-8.11.4]]
 === Beats version 8.11.4
 https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.11.3\...v8.11.4[View commits]

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -17,14 +17,12 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 
 
 *Heartbeat*
-- Decreases the ES default timeout to 10 for the load monitor state requests
 
 *Metricbeat*
 
 
 *Osquerybeat*
 
-- Upgrade to osquery 5.10.2. {pull}37115[37115]
 
 *Packetbeat*
 
@@ -73,18 +71,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 - Fix panic when sqs input metrics getter is invoked {pull}36101[36101] {issue}36077[36077]
 - Fix handling of Juniper SRX structured data when there is no leading junos element. {issue}36270[36270] {pull}36308[36308]
 - Fix Filebeat Cisco module with missing escape character {issue}36325[36325] {pull}36326[36326]
-- Fix panic when redact option is not provided to CEL input. {issue}36387[36387] {pull}36388[36388]
-- Remove 'onFilteredOut' and 'onDroppedOnPublish' callback logs {issue}36299[36299] {pull}36399[36399]
 - Added a fix for Crowdstrike pipeline handling process arrays {pull}36496[36496]
-- Ensure winlog input retains metric collection when handling recoverable errors. {issue}36479[36479] {pull}36483[36483]
-- Revert error introduced in {pull}35734[35734] when symlinks can't be resolved in filestream. {pull}36557[36557]
-- Fix ignoring external input configuration in `take_over: true` mode {issue}36378[36378] {pull}36395[36395]
-- Add validation to http_endpoint config for empty URL {pull}36816[36816] {issue}36772[36772]
-- Fix merging of array fields(processors, paths, parsers) in configurations generated from hints and default config. {issue}36838[36838] {pull}36857[36857]
-- Fix handling of response errors in HTTPJSON and CEL request trace logging. {pull}36956[36956]
-- Do not error when Okta API returns no data. {pull}37092[37092]
-- Fix request body close behaviour in HTTP_Endpoint when handling GZIP compressed content. {pull}37091[37091]
-- Make CEL input now global evaluate to a time in UTC. {pull}37159[37159]
 
 *Heartbeat*
 
@@ -104,6 +91,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 - Fix EC2 host.cpu.usage {pull}35717[35717]
 - Add option in SQL module to execute queries for all dbs. {pull}35688[35688]
 - Add remaining dimensions for azure storage account to make them available for tsdb enablement. {pull}36331[36331]
+- Add log error when statsd server fails to start {pull}36477[36477]
 - Fix Azure Resource Metrics missing metrics (min and max aggregations) after upgrade to 8.11.3 {issue}37642[37642] {pull}37643[37643]
 
 *Osquerybeat*
@@ -124,12 +112,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 *Affecting all Beats*
 
 - Added append Processor which will append concrete values or values from a field to target. {issue}29934[29934] {pull}33364[33364]
-- When running under Elastic-Agent the status is now reported per Unit instead of the whole Beat {issue}35874[35874] {pull}36183[36183]
-- Add warning message to SysV init scripts for RPM-based systems that lack `/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions`. {issue}35708[35708] {pull}36188[36188]
-- Mark `translate_sid` processor is GA. {issue}36279[36279] {pull}36280[36280]
 - dns processor: Add support for forward lookups (`A`, `AAAA`, and `TXT`). {issue}11416[11416] {pull}36394[36394]
-- Mark `syslog` processor as GA, improve docs about how processor handles syslog messages. {issue}36416[36416] {pull}36417[36417]
-- Add support for AWS external IDs. {issue}36321[36321] {pull}36322[36322]
 - [Enhanncement for host.ip and host.mac] Disabling netinfo.enabled option of add-host-metadata processor {pull}36506[36506]
   Setting environmental variable ELASTIC_NETINFO:false in Elastic Agent pod will disable the netinfo.enabled option of add_host_metadata processor
 - allow `queue` configuration settings to be set under the output. {issue}35615[35615] {pull}36788[36788]
@@ -145,8 +128,6 @@ Setting environmental variable ELASTIC_NETINFO:false in Elastic Agent pod will d
 
 *Auditbeat*
 
-- Add `ignore_errors` option to audit module. {issue}15768[15768] {pull}36851[36851]
-- Fix copy arguments for strict aligned architectures. {pull}36976[36976]
 
 *Filebeat*
 
@@ -163,33 +144,9 @@ Setting environmental variable ELASTIC_NETINFO:false in Elastic Agent pod will d
 - Add nginx ingress_controller parsing if one of upstreams fails to return response {pull}34787[34787]
 - Add oracle authentication messages parsing {pull}35127[35127]
 - Add `clean_session` configuration setting for MQTT input.  {pull}35806[16204]
-- Add fingerprint mode for the filestream scanner and new file identity based on it {issue}34419[34419] {pull}35734[35734]
-- Add file system metadata to events ingested via filestream {issue}35801[35801] {pull}36065[36065]
-- Add support for localstack based input integration testing {pull}35727[35727]
-- Allow parsing bytes in and bytes out as long integer in CEF processor. {issue}36100[36100] {pull}36108[36108]
-- Add support for registered owners and users to AzureAD entity analytics provider. {pull}36092[36092]
-- Add support for endpoint resolver in AWS config {pull}36208[36208]
-- Added support for Okta OAuth2 provider in the httpjson input. {pull}36273[36273]
-- Add support of the interval parameter in Salesforce setupaudittrail-rest fileset. {issue}35917[35917] {pull}35938[35938]
-- Add device handling to Okta input package for entity analytics. {pull}36049[36049]
-- Add setup option `--force-enable-module-filesets`, that will act as if all filesets have been enabled in a module during setup. {issue}30916[30916] {pull}36286[36286]
-- [Azure] Add input metrics to the azure-eventhub input. {pull}35739[35739]
-- Reduce HTTPJSON metrics allocations. {pull}36282[36282]
 - Add support for a simplified input configuraton when running under Elastic-Agent {pull}36390[36390]
-- Make HTTPJSON response body decoding errors more informative. {pull}36481[36481]
-- Allow fine-grained control of entity analytics API requests for Okta provider. {issue}36440[36440] {pull}36492[36492]
-- Add support for expanding `journald.process.capabilities` into the human-readable effective capabilities in the ECS `process.thread.capabilities.effective` field. {issue}36454[36454] {pull}36470[36470]
-- Allow fine-grained control of entity analytics API requests for AzureAD provider. {issue}36440[36440] {pull}36441[36441]
-- For request tracer logging in CEL and httpjson the request and response body are no longer included in `event.original`. The body is still present in `http.{request,response}.body.content`. {pull}36531[36531]
 - Added support for Okta OAuth2 provider in the CEL input. {issue}36336[36336] {pull}36521[36521]
-- Improve error logging in HTTPJSON input. {pull}36529[36529]
-- Disable warning message about ingest pipeline loading when running under Elastic Agent. {pull}36659[36659]
-- Add input metrics to http_endpoint input. {issue}36402[36402] {pull}36427[36427]
-- Remove Event Normalization from GCP PubSub Input. {pull}36716[36716]
-- Update mito CEL extension library to v1.6.0. {pull}36651[36651]
 - Added support for new features & removed partial save mechanism in the Azure Blob Storage input. {issue}35126[35126] {pull}36690[36690]
-- Improve template evaluation logging for HTTPJSON input. {pull}36668[36668]
-- Add CEL partial value debug function. {pull}36652[36652]
 - Added support for new features and removed partial save mechanism in the GCS input. {issue}35847[35847] {pull}36713[36713]
 - Re-use buffers to optimise memory allocation in fingerprint mode of filestream {pull}36736[36736]
 - Allow http_endpoint input to receive PUT and PATCH requests. {pull}36734[36734]
@@ -211,14 +168,11 @@ Setting environmental variable ELASTIC_NETINFO:false in Elastic Agent pod will d
 
 *Auditbeat*
 
-- Upgrade go-libaudit to v2.4.0. {issue}36776[36776] {pull}36964[36964]
-- Add a `/inputs/` route to the HTTP monitoring endpoint that exposes metrics for each dataset instance. {pull}36971[36971]
 
 *Libbeat*
 
 *Heartbeat*
 - Added status to monitor run log report.
-- Capture and log the individual connection metrics for all the lightweight monitors
 
 
 *Metricbeat*
@@ -240,16 +194,12 @@ Setting environmental variable ELASTIC_NETINFO:false in Elastic Agent pod will d
 
 *Packetbeat*
 
-- Add metrics for TCP flags. {issue}36992[36992] {pull}36975[36975]
 
 *Packetbeat*
 
 
 *Winlogbeat*
 
-- Make ingest pipeline routing robust to letter case of channel names for forwarded events. {issue}36670[36670] {pull}36899[36899]
-- Document minimum permissions required for local user account. {issue}15773[15773] {pull}37176[37176]
-- Bump Windows Npcap version to v1.78. {issue}37300[37300] {pull}37370[37370]
 
 *Functionbeat*
 
@@ -269,7 +219,6 @@ Setting environmental variable ELASTIC_NETINFO:false in Elastic Agent pod will d
 
 *Filebeat*
 
-- Deprecate rsa2elk Filebeat modules. {issue}36125[36125] {pull}36887[36887]
 
 *Heartbeat*
 
@@ -329,6 +278,9 @@ Setting environmental variable ELASTIC_NETINFO:false in Elastic Agent pod will d
 
 
 
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diff --git a/libbeat/docs/release.asciidoc b/libbeat/docs/release.asciidoc
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ This section summarizes the changes in each release. Also read
 <<breaking-changes>> for more detail about changes that affect
 upgrade.
 
+* <<release-notes-8.12.0>>
 * <<release-notes-8.11.4>>
 * <<release-notes-8.11.3>>
 * <<release-notes-8.11.2>>