[Bug 218868] sysutils/logstash: Current(v2.3.2) is unmaintained - Update to latest version (v2.4.1)

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218868

--- Comment #2 from Dani <i.dani at outlook.com> ---
(In reply to Matthew Seaman from comment #1)
Sorry for that. I saw that you have commited the last updates and since i
haven't heard anything from the maintainer for over 2 weeks i tought i'll add
you and tj(Maintainer of logstash5).

There are multiple reasons. If you have a ELK Stack and 100+ servers running
logstash, it isn't such a fast thing to update to a new major release. 2.4.x
will be maintained until 02.2018 [1] and is the last & latest release of the
2.x series. I think we aren't the only ones who still need 2.x to run, until we
have everything ready for 5.x. And there were multiple needed and "critical"
bugfixes made for 2.4.x over 2.3.2, which we would really love to see beeing
pushed to the portstree.

With 2.4.x there is also the possibility to upgrade to elasticsearch5/kibana5
without having to update all logstash instances too[2]. So a step by step
update would be possible.

I hope you understand our request and sorry again if i shouldn't have added
you.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/support/eol
[2] https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#show_compatibility

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