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 - Beats will rate limit the logs about errors when indexing events on Elasticsearch, logging a summary every 10s. The logs sent to the event log is unchanged. {issue}40157[40157]
 - Drop support for Debian 10 and upgrade statically linked glibc from 2.28 to 2.31 {pull}41402[41402]
 - 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]
-- Set default kafka version to 2.1.0 in kafka output and filebeat. {pull}41662[41662]
 - Fix templates and docs to use correct `--` version of command line arguments. {issue}42038[42038] {pull}42060[42060]
 
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