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New Vector features and updates

Version 0.60.0
0.60 Upgrade Guide
October 19, 2026
type: breaking change
Version 0.59.0
0.59 Upgrade Guide
October 6, 2026
type: breaking change
Version 0.58.0
0.58 Upgrade Guide
August 26, 2026
type: breaking change
Version 0.57.0
0.57 Upgrade Guide
July 14, 2026
pront thomasqueirozb
type: breaking change
Version 0.55.0
0.55 Upgrade Guide
April 20, 2026
pront
type: breaking change
Version 0.51.0
0.51 Upgrade Guide
November 4, 2025
thomasqueirozb
type: breaking change
Version 0.50.0
OTLP Support
September 23, 2025
pront
type: new feature domain: opentelemetry domain: otel domain: otlp
Version 0.49.0
0.49 Upgrade Guide
August 12, 2025
pront
type: breaking change
Version 0.45.0
0.45 Upgrade Guide
February 24, 2025
pront
type: breaking change
Memory Enrichment Table
February 24, 2025
pront
type: new feature domain: enrichment domain: table domain: memory domain: sinks
Version 0.44.0
0.44 Upgrade Guide
January 13, 2025
pront
type: breaking change
Version 0.43.0
Exclusive Route Transform
November 7, 2024
pront
type: new feature domain: transforms
Version 0.40.0
0.40 Upgrade Guide
July 29, 2024
jszwedko
type: breaking change
Version 0.39.0
0.39 Upgrade Guide
June 17, 2024
jszwedko
type: breaking change
Version 0.38.0
0.38 Upgrade Guide
May 6, 2024
jszwedko
type: breaking change
Version 0.37.0
0.37 Upgrade Guide
March 26, 2023
jszwedko
type: breaking change
Version 0.36.0
0.36 Upgrade Guide
February 13, 2024
jszwedko
type: breaking change
Version 0.35.0
0.35 Upgrade Guide
December 19, 2023
dsmith3197
type: breaking change
Version 0.34.0
0.34 Upgrade Guide
November 7, 2023
dsmith3197
type: breaking change
A New Home for Linux Packages
November 7, 2023
spencergilbert
type: announcement
Secrets in Disk Buffers
October 30, 2023
tobz
type: announcement
Version 0.33.0
0.33 Upgrade Guide
September 27, 2023
spencergilbert neuronull pront dsmith3197
type: breaking change
YAML default configuration format
August 30, 2023
pront
type: announcement
Version 0.32.0
0.32 Upgrade Guide
August 15, 2023
jszwedko
type: breaking change
Version 0.31.0
0.31 Upgrade Guide
July 5, 2023
stephenwakely tobz
type: breaking change
Version 0.30.0
0.30 Upgrade Guide
May 22, 2023
neuronull
type: breaking change
Version 0.29.0
0.29 Upgrade Guide
April 11, 2023
stephenwakely neuronull
type: breaking change
Version 0.28.0
0.28 Upgrade Guide
February 18, 2023
spencergilbert neuronull
type: breaking change
Version 0.27.0
0.27 Upgrade Guide
January 17, 2023
spencergilbert neuronull
type: breaking change
Enhanced Metric Tags
December 22, 2022
bruceg
type: enhancement
Version 0.26.0
0.26 Upgrade Guide
November 7, 2022
tobz
type: breaking change
Version 0.25.0
0.25 Upgrade Guide
October 8, 2022
fuchsnj bruceg
type: breaking change
Version 0.24.0
0.24 Upgrade Guide
August 16, 2022
JeanMertz stephenwakely fuchsnj
type: breaking change
Version 0.23.0
0.23 Upgrade Guide
July 7, 2022
akx jszwedko spencergilbert fuchsnj pablosichert JeanMertz
type: breaking change
Load secrets into Vector
July 7, 2022
jszwedko
type: enhancement
Updates to event metadata and secrets
June 7, 2022
fuchsnj
type: enhancement
New encoding and framing options for sinks
July 7, 2021
jszwedko
type: announcement
Version 0.22.0
New encryption functions for VRL
May 24, 2022
jszwedko
type: enhancement
VRL iteration support has arrived!
May 18, 2022
JeanMertz
type: announcement domain: vrl domain: remap
0.22 Upgrade Guide
May 3, 2022
spencergilbert jszwedko
type: breaking change
New native and native_json codecs
April 25, 2022
lukesteensen
type: announcement
Switching the default implementation of disk buffers to disk_v2
April 6, 2022
tobz
type: enhancement
Version 0.21.0
kube for kubernetes_logs
March 28, 2022
spencergilbert
type: breaking change
0.21 Upgrade Guide
March 22, 2022
001wwang leebenson fuchsnj spencergilbert ”JeanMertz”
type: breaking change
Beta release of a Virtual Machine to run VRL programs
March 15, 2022
StephenWakely
type: enhancement
Version 0.20.0
0.20 Upgrade Guide
February 8, 2022
tobz spencergilbert
type: breaking change
Beta release of Vector’s new disk buffer implementation
February 8, 2022
tobz
type: enhancement
New output tag in internal metrics
January 19, 2022
001wwang
Vector Config Unit Testing Improvements
January 12, 2022
001wwang
Version 0.19.0
0.19 Upgrade Guide
December 28, 2021
001wwang
type: breaking change
Splunk HEC Improvements
December 15, 2021
barieom
type: enhancement
Improved concurrency model
December 14, 2021
barieom
type: announcement
Version 0.18.0
0.18 Upgrade Guide
November 18, 2021
tobz
type: breaking change
Automatic namespacing for configuration files
November 18, 2021
barieom
type: new feature
Elasticsearch sink config changes and deprecations
November 18, 2021
fuchsnj
type: deprecation
Enrich your observability data from a CSV
November 18, 2021
barieom lucperkins
type: new feature
Event throttle transform released
November 18, 2021
barieom
type: new feature
Initial support for routing failed events released
November 18, 2021
barieom lukesteensen
type: new feature
Version 0.17.0
0.17 Upgrade Guide
October 8, 2021
jszwedko tobz
type: breaking change
HTTP-based sinks now use adaptive concurrency by default
October 6, 2021
jszwedko
type: announcement
New decoding and framing options for sources
October 6, 2021
jszwedko
type: announcement
Version 0.16.0
0.16 Upgrade Guide
August 25, 2021
jszwedko JeanMertz spencergilbert
type: breaking change
Introducing helm.vector.dev
August 24, 2021
spencergilbert
type: deprecation
Moving the aggregator Helm chart to public beta
August 24, 2021
spencergilbert
type: announcement
wasm transform to be removed from Vector
August 23, 2021
jszwedko
type: deprecation domain: extensions
Improved defaults for sink rate limits
August 20, 2021
jszwedko
type: announcement domain: performance
Version 2 of the Vector source/sink released
August 20, 2021
JeanMertz
type: announcement
Version 0.15.0
Mapping one log event into multiple
July 16, 2021
jszwedko
type: new feature domain: vrl domain: remap transform
0.15 Upgrade Guide
July 14, 2021
jszwedko
type: breaking change
Visualizing your Vector topology
July 14, 2021
jszwedko
type: new feature domain: cli
Introduction of customConfig Helm option and deprecation notice for TOML based config keys
July 13, 2021
spencergilbert
type: deprecation domain: config
Version 0.14.0
Generate events from an external program using the new exec source
June 2, 2021
jszwedko
type: new feature domain: sources
Switching to the system allocator
June 2, 2021
jszwedko
type: announcement domain: performance
Telemetry units for duration metrics fixed
June 2, 2021
jszwedko
type: breaking change domain: metrics
Deprecating Helm rawConfig option
June 1, 2021
spencergilbert
type: deprecation domain: config
Version 0.13.0
Adding the abort keyword to VRL
April 21, 2021
jszwedko
type: new feature domain: remap
Introducing vector tap
April 21, 2021
jszwedko
type: new feature domain: graphql domain: cli domain: observability
0.13 Upgrade Guide
April 21, 2020
jszwedko
type: breaking change
Version 0.12.0
0.12 Upgrade Guide
February 16, 2021
binarylogic
type: breaking change
Introducing Vector Remap Language
February 16, 2021
binarylogic
type: featured domain: remap
Remap support for the filter transform
February 16, 2021
lucperkins
type: enhancement transform: filter
Remap support for the reduce transform (multi-line logs)
February 16, 2021
lucperkins
type: enhancement transform: reduce
Remap support for the swimlanes transform (routing)
February 16, 2021
lucperkins
type: enhancement transform: swimlanes
Improved file source checkpointing
January 31, 2021
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: sources source: file
Wildcards are now supported in component names
January 20, 2021
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: topology
The kafka sink now supports metrics
January 10, 2021
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: metrics sink: kafka
Introducing vector top
December 23, 2020
lucperkins
type: new feature domain: cli domain: observability
The internal_logs source
December 23, 2020
lucperkins
type: new feature source: internal_logs
The GraphQL API for Vector
December 23, 2020
lucperkins
type: new feature domain: api
Version 0.11.0
0.11 Upgrade Guide
December 1, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change
JSON and YAML config formats are now supported
November 25, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: config
Support for the Prometheus remote write protocol
November 19, 2020
jamtur01
type: new feature domain: metrics domain: sources
First-class Kubernetes integration
October 27, 2020
binarylogic
type: featured domain: platforms
New AWS integrations
October 27, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sources
New metrics integrations
October 27, 2020
jamtur01
type: new feature domain: metrics domain: sources
Adaptive Request Concurrency (ARC)
September 18, 2020
lucperkins
type: new feature domain: networking domain: performance domain: reliability
Switching to the MPL 2.0 License
August 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: announcement
Version 0.10.0
Custom DNS resolution removal
July 23, 2020
hoverbear
type: breaking change
Leveraging glibc when possible
July 17, 2020
hoverbear
type: performance domain: operations
New Reduce transform
July 17, 2020
hoverbear
type: new feature domain: transforms
Kafka components support SASL
July 15, 2020
hoverbear
type: new feature domain: sinks sink: kafka
Journald Unit Filtering Exclusions
July 14, 2020
hoverbear
type: new feature source: journald
New compression options for some sinks
July 14, 2020
hoverbear
type: new feature sink: aws_kinesis_firehose sink: aws_kinesis_streams sink: aws_s3 sink: humio_logs
Beautification of the validate command
July 13, 2020
hoverbear
type: enhancement domain: ux
Now supporting the bearer auth strategy
July 13, 2020
hoverbear
type: enhancement domain: sinks sink: http
RegexSet support to regex transform
July 13, 2020
hoverbear
type: enhancement domain: transforms transform: regex_parser
Support for loading multiple CAs
July 13, 2020
hoverbear
type: enhancement source: socket
Vector gracefully exits when specific sources finish
July 13, 2020
hoverbear
type: enhancement source: stdin
Version 0.9.0
ACL is now optional for the Google Cloud Storage sink
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change sink: gcp_cloud_storage
New Apache Pulsar Sink
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sinks sink: pulsar
New Encoding Options
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: sinks
New Honeycomb Sink
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sinks sink: honeycomb
Set the Lua transform search_dirs option to Vector’s config dir by default
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: transforms transform: lua
The elasticsearch sink compression option now defaults to none
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: elasticsearch
The gcp_stackdriver_logging sink has been renamed to gcp_stackdriver_logs
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: splunk_hec
The splunk_hec source’s host_field option has been renamed to host_key
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: splunk_hec
Use external tagging for metrics serialization
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change
Improved Shutdown
April 20, 2020
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: topology
4 New Sinks!
April 17, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sinks
À la carte Custom Vector Builds
April 16, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sources source: vector
New Dedupe Transform
April 16, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sources source: vector
New Filter Transform
April 16, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: transforms transform: filter
New Tag Cardinality Limit Transform
April 16, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: transforms transform: tag_cardinality_limit
The Vector Source Now Accepts Metrics
April 14, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sources source: vector
Compression Now Available In The Kafka Sink
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sinks sink: kafka
More Condition Predicates
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: config domain: transforms transform: filter transform: swimlanes
New Datadog Logs Sink
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sinks sink: datadog_logs
New Papertrail Sink
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sinks sink: papertrail
NixOS Support
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: platforms
The Vector Source and Sink Support TLS
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sources source: vector
Whitelist and Blacklist Fields When Encoding
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sinks
A New Guides Section
March 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: website
Lua Transform v2
March 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: sources source: vector
Version 0.8.1
We’ve Added a Privacy Policy
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: announcement
Version 0.8.0
Automatically merge partial Docker events
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: sources source: docker
Introducing Vector’s Global Log Schema
April 19, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: config
AWS specific options have been dropped in the Elasticsearch sink
April 15, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: elasticsearch
Improved Multiline Support In The File Source
April 14, 2020
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: sources source: file
Improved Syslog Parsing
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sources source: syslog
Log Data Model Changes and Disk Buffers
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: buffers
Lots of New Sinks!
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sinks
New Rename Fields Transform
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: transforms transform: rename_fields
New Swimlanes Transform
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: transforms transform: swimlanes
Support For Multiple Config Files
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: config
The Add Fields Transform Supports Templating
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: enhancement domain: transforms transform: add_fields
Version 0.7.0
Merge existing tcp and udp sources into a single socket source
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change source: tcp source: udp
Rename existing tcp sink to socket sink
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: tcp
Sink options have been refactored
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: buffers domain: config domain: sinks
The splunk_hec sink does not index fields by default
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: splunk_hec
Use comma delim server list in kafka sink
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: kafka
Rename line field to message in splunk_hec source
April 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sources source: splunk_hec
New Prometheus Source
March 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sources source: prometheus
Version 0.6.0
Require encoding option for console and file sinks
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: console sink: file
The datadog sink has been renamed to datadog_metrics
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: breaking change domain: sinks sink: datadog_metrics
Use Custom DNS Servers
July 13, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: networking
ARMv7 and ARM64 Support on Linux
March 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: platforms
New AWS EC2 Metadata Transform
March 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: transforms transform: aws_ec2_metadata
New Kubernetes Source (alpha)
March 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: sources source: kubernetes
Unit Testing Your Vector Config Files
March 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: config
Windows Support Is Here!
March 31, 2020
binarylogic
type: new feature domain: platforms