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 - Fix metrics not being ingested, due to "Limit of total fields [10000] has been exceeded while adding new fields [...]". The total fields limit has been increased to 12500. No significant performance impact on Elasticsearch is anticipated. {pull}41640[41640]
 - Fix templates and docs to use correct `--` version of command line arguments. {issue}42038[42038] {pull}42060[42060]
 - removed support for a single `-` to precede multi-letter command line arguments.  Use `--` instead. {issue}42117[42117] {pull}42209[42209]
+- The Beats logger and file output rotate files when necessary. The beat now forces a file rotation when unexpectedly writing to a file through a symbolic link.
 
 *Auditbeat*