- Add encoding: utf-8 line to spec file. This can prevent issues with tests.
- Simplify the shutdown implementation a bit for easier understanding
- 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