Add note about changes to regexp package in Golang

elastic · Oct 25, 2021 · b27cae5 · b27cae5
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 - Improve stats API {pull}27963[27963]
 - Enable IMDSv2 support for `add_cloud_metadata` processor on AWS. {issue}22101[22101] {pull}28285[28285]
 - Update kubernetes.namespace from keyword to group field and add name, labels, annotations, uuid as its fields {pull}27917[27917]
+- Previously, RE2 and thus Golang had a bug where `(|a)*` matched more characters than `(|a)+`. To stay consistent with PCRE, the bug was fixed. Configurations that rely on the old, buggy behaviour has to be adjusted. See more about Golang bug: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/46123 {pull}27543[27543]
 
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