March 2026 monthly summary for open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib: Delivered a new FileLog Receiver feature to annotate file permission modes in logs. Introduced the include_file_permissions parameter (disabled by default) to expose the 3-digit file permission mode under file.log.permissions. Not available on Windows. Enhanced observability for file-based logs, supporting auditing and security investigations. Changes include unit test extensions and documentation updates.

December 2025: Delivered Filebeat Unix event metadata enhancement to include file owner and group, improving security auditing, traceability, and log management across the Beats pipeline. The change provides richer context without impacting ingestion performance, supporting governance compliance and faster incident investigations.