- Docs: Set the default_codec doc attribute.
- Docs: Add documentation template
- Add encoding: utf-8 to spec files. This can help prevent issues during testing.
- Plugins were updated to follow the new shutdown semantic, this mainly allows Logstash to instruct input plugins to terminate gracefully, instead of using Thread.raise on the plugins' threads. Ref: elastic/logstash#3895
- Dependency on logstash-core update to 2.0