What's Changed

Features

• feat(helm/fluent-operator): add option to disable rbac creation by @gbloquel in #1556
• Added support for deploying multiple fluentbit collector replicas by @solidDoWant in #1561
• feat(fluentd): add null output plugin by @cw-Guo in #1578
• adding support for Syslog over TLS by @matelang in #1603
• Add structured metadata support for Loki output plugin by @error9098x in #1579
• expose Enable_Chunk_Trace in the crd, enabling TAP debuging by @danielpodwysocki in #1588
• feat(charts): Add ability for custom positionDB for FluentBit by @kiblik in #1548
• Added the ability to specify Fluentd service type by @solidDoWant in #1564
• Added the ability to set Use_Tag_For_Meta on fluentbit kubernetes filter by @solidDoWant in #1565
• Add support for compression to the Fluentd HTTP output plugin by @solidDoWant in #1560
• Added the ability to set DB.locking on fluentbit tail inputs by @solidDoWant in #1567
• Added the ability to set Owner_References on fluentbit kubernetes filter by @solidDoWant in #1566

Enhancements

• Update fluent-operator-clusterRole.yaml by @duj4 in #1502
• Pin GitHub actions on commit hash according to best practices by @marcofranssen in #1513
• Use go.mod version in workflows by @marcofranssen in #1514
• Move dash so that labelKeys and removeKeys on separate line by @heytrav in #1509
• makefile: Remove chmod+x by @marcofranssen in #1521
• gitignore: remove gitignore file and move content to .gitignore by @marcofranssen in #1519
• editorconfig: Add .editorconfig to ensure files are formatted consistently by @marcofranssen in #1518
• go-vet: Fix the Go vet findings by @marcofranssen in #1517
• actions: Remove cache action for Go by @marcofranssen in #1528
• hack: Fix shellcheck findings in bash scripts by @marcofranssen in #1527
• chore: update watcher start log by @cw-Guo in #1529
• Re-factors CI workflow for building & publishing fluent-bit image by @joshuabaird in #1531
• Update formatting based on prettier plugin by @truongnht in #1536
• build-fb-image: Update release documentation by @marcofranssen in #1515
• Bump fluent-bit to 4.0.0 by @github-actions in #1544
• Add renovate workflow to bump fluent-bit version by @truongnht in #1535
• renovate wf: Runs renovate job on ubuntu-latest by @truongnht in #1549
• helm-chart: Improve templates by @marcofranssen in #1555
• helm-chart: Streamline image values and usage by @marcofranssen in #1550
• Support setting fluent-bit bufferChunkSize for tail input by @truongnht in #1569
• makefile: Update Makefile by @marcofranssen in #1571
• ci: Ensure all generated code is committed by @marcofranssen in #1570
• helm-chart: Prevent few more occasions of template injection by @marcofranssen in #1572
• charts/fluent-operator: Add namespace to the ServiceAccount by @TeddyAndrieux in #1590
• ci: Ensure helm tests run on changes to the chart by @marcofranssen in #1597
• dependabot: Group the k8s.io/- dependency updates in single PR by @marcofranssen in #1594
• dependabot: Refactor docker ecosystem to new syntax by @marcofranssen in #1595
• Fix(doc): open_search.md referencing elasticsearch name by @Anghille in #1408
• fix: Update outdated crds by @marcofranssen in #1605

Dependencies

• actions: Pin setup-helm to v4.3.0 + Bump Helm to v3.17.2 by @marcofranssen in #1520
• Bump fluent-bit to 3.2.9 by @github-actions in #1511
• images: Align Go version to be 1.24.1 based on go.mod defined version by @marcofranssen in #1516
• build(deps): Bump actions/setup-go from 5.3.0 to 5.4.0 by @dependabot in #1525
• build(deps): Bump actions/cache from 4.2.2 to 4.2.3 by @dependabot in #1524
• build(deps): Bump aquasecurity/trivy-action from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0 by @dependabot in #1523
• build(deps): Bump github.com/onsi/gomega from 1.34.2 to 1.36.3 by @dependabot in #1533
• build(deps): Bump helm/chart-testing-action from 2.6.1 to 2.7.0 by @dependabot in #1487
• fluent-bit: Bump fluent-bit from 3.2.9 to 3.2.10 by @marcofranssen in #1537
• dependencies: Update go dependencies by @marcofranssen in #1552
• Bump fluent-bit to 4.0.1 by @github-actions in #1584
• build(deps): Bump docker/build-push-action from 6.15.0 to 6.16.0 by @dependabot in #1599
• build(deps): Bump renovatebot/github-action from 41.0.13 to 41.0.22 by @dependabot in #1598
• chore(deps): update ghcr.io/fluent/fluent-operator/fluent-bit docker tag to v4.0.1 by @github-actions in #1585
• build(deps): Bump golang.org/x/sync from 0.13.0 to 0.14.0 by @dependabot in #1604

Bugfixes

• Fix Kubernetes Events DBSync config by @ZephireNZ in #1546
• Add missing multiline ClusterFilter values by @discostur in #1581
• (ci/fluentbit) fix: Adds permission to publish packages by @joshuabaird in #1538
• (ci/fluentbit) fix: provide packages:write permission by @joshuabaird in #1539
• Fixed nil pointer dereference (panic) when port numbers are unset by @solidDoWant in #1563
• Fix ClusterFluentBitConfig rendering in helm chart when using yaml configFileFormat by @truongnht in #1573
• fix(crd): disallow null values for logfmt parser to prevent fluent-bit crash by @sandy2008 in #1543
• Fix fluentbit service selector not using pod labels when defined by @solidDoWant in #1575

New Contributors

• @duj4 made their first contribution in #1502
• @marcofranssen made their first contribution in #1513
• @heytrav made their first contribution in #1509
• @sandy2008 made their first contribution in #1543
• @ZephireNZ made their first contribution in #1546
• @kiblik made their first contribution in #1548
• @gbloquel made their first contribution in #1556
• @solidDoWant made their first contribution in #1563
• @discostur made their first contribution in #1581
• @danielpodwysocki made their first contribution in #1588
• @TeddyAndrieux made their first contribution in #1590
• @matelang made their first contribution in #1603
• @error9098x made their first contribution in #1579
• @Anghille made their first contribution in #1408

Full Changelog: v3.3.0...v3.4.0