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The master manual currently presents 5.1 as its newest release. Prepare it for the upcoming Fluent Bit 5.2 release with an explicit version on the landing page and table of contents, plus 5.2 sections in the rolling highlights and upgrade notes.

Document FTS and the log ingestion, processor, HTTP worker, and chunk allocation changes against the Fluent Bit master source. Explain how to test the development source while 5.2 packages are pending. Preserve historical version availability notes and published download URLs/checksums.

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Source reviewed: fluent/fluent-bit master at 7ea6759f2, whose CMake version is 5.2.0; changes compared with the 5.1 branch.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated documentation to cover the upcoming Fluent Bit 5.2 release on the master branch, with links to release highlights and upgrade guidance.
    • Clarified that package and container downloads list previously published releases until 5.2.0 is available, and added guidance for trying the development version.
    • Added upgrade notes for users upgrading from 5.1 or earlier, including recommendations for testing workloads and guidance on using Fluent Typed Scripting alongside Lua filters.
  • New Features
    • Documented Fluent Typed Scripting and 5.2 updates to log processing, buffering, connection balancing, and input chunk allocation.

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The documentation now presents Fluent Bit 5.2 as an upcoming release. It updates download and upgrade guidance and adds release notes about Fluent Typed Scripting and performance and scalability changes.

Changes: Fluent Bit 5.2 documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release status and download guidance
README.md, SUMMARY.md, installation/downloads.md, installation/downloads/source.md
The documentation identifies 5.2 as upcoming, updates its labels, and explains how to access development sources before release.
Upgrade guidance
README.md, installation/upgrade-notes.md
The upgrade notice applies to users upgrading from 5.1 or earlier. The 5.2 notes describe changes to test and explain how to configure FTS alongside existing Lua filters.
5.2 release highlights
installation/whats-new-in-fluent-bit-v5.md, vale-styles/FluentBit/Headings.yml
The release notes describe FTS and updates to log decoding, processor execution, HTTP connection balancing, and input-chunk allocation. The heading style exceptions include FTS terms.

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Review comments at @installation/upgrade-notes.md:
- Line 21: Update the first prose use of “FTS” in the upgrade notes to introduce
it as “Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS)”; retain “FTS” for subsequent mentions in
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- Line 19: Add “Fluent Typed Scripting” to the shared heading exceptions and
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@edsiper thanks or this, I'll hold until the 5.2 release!

  - Add Fluent Typed Scripting and FTS to the Vale Headings exceptions so the 5.2 upgrade
    notes and release highlights headings keep the product name capitalization
  - Introduce Fluent Typed Scripting (FTS) on first prose use in the 5.2 upgrade notes
  - https URLs with an explicit port now always use TLS; S3 and Azure
    Blob endpoints were previously plaintext; an https metadata_server
    now fails
  - NATS invalid subject rejection, File output escaping, Unix socket
    symlink checks, Syslog buffer ranges, rewrite_tag output processor
    rejection
  - HTTP/1 32KiB header limit, JWKS limit raised to 1M with a new 30s
    time limit, OpenTelemetry http_client limits
  - AWS FULL_URI host validation, S3 and Azure endpoint certificate
    verification, regex work limit, textfile merged scrapes

Signed-off-by: Eduardo Silva <edsiper@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric D. Schabell <eric@schabell.org>
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